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THE  TRACTS,  forming  the  present  Volume,  have 
been  collected,  with  considerable  pains,  from  a 
variety  of  sources  ;  and  it  is  hoped,  will  prove 
equally  acceptable  to  the  Antiquary,  and  to  the 
general  reader. 

The  whole  circumstances,  attending  the  suffer- 
ings, trial,  and  last  moments,  of  the  unfortunate 
MARY,  QUEEN  OF  SCOTLAND,  are  already  suffi- 
ciently well  known  ;  but  among  the  numerous  and 
voluminous  works  of  her  Historians,  Vindicators, 
and  Calumniators,  very  little  information  can  be 
gathered,  concerning  the  Funeral  obsequies  of  that 
ill-fated  Princess.  Indeed,  it  may  be  noticed,  that 
few  of  these  authors  have  even  mentioned,  that 
Mary  had  a  public  funeral  granted  to  her;  and 
those  who  have  stated  this  fact,  have  given  no 


x  Introduction. 

particulars  whatever  relating  to  it.  This  considera- 
tion suggested  to  the  Editor  the  idea  of  collecting 
whatever  might  seem  curious  and  worthy  of  pre- 
servation on  the  subject. 

It  appears  necessary  here  to  remark  in  general 
that  Mary  left  explicit  and  very  minute  directions 
in  her  Last  Will  *  concerning  the  disposal  of  her 
body ;  which  she  desired  to  be  buried  in  France,  as 
will  be  seen,  by  the  following  quotation  from  an 
authentic  copy  of  that  interesting  document,  taken 
from  the  Cotton  Library.  (Vespas.  c.  xvi.  p.  145.) 

"  Je  veulx  &  ordonne,  que  si  je  decedde  en  ceste  prison,  mon 
corps  soit  porte  en  France,  et  y  conduict  a  mes  despens,  par  tous 
les  serviteurs  &  officiers  de  ma  maison,t  estant  pres  de  moy,  lors 
de  mon  decez,  pour  estre  inhume,  en  1'Eglise  Sainct  Denys, 
aupres  du  Corps  du  feu  mon  trescher  &  treshonore  seigneur  & 
mary,  le  Roy  de  France,  Frangoys,  &c.  Qu'aux  funerailles  qui 
se  feront,  en  1'ad'  ville,  assistent  tous  mes  serviteurs  et  officiers 
domestiques,  qui  s'y  vouldront  trouver  revestuz  en  deuil,  ch'nt 
selon  sa  qualite ;  et  oultre  deux  cens  pauvres  aussi  vestuz  de 
robbes  de  deuil,  ch'n  une  torche  allume'e  a  la  main.  Les  quattre 
mendians  de  Paris,  les  enfans  de  la  Trinite,  les  bons  homines, 
Capussins,  et  aultres  relligieux,  ainsi  que  les  executeurs  de  ces 
Testament  adviseront,  et  verront  bon  estre. — Ausquels  j'ordonne 
y  faire  celebrer  le  divin  service,  tant  vigiles  que  messes,  ainsi 
qu  Ton  a  accoustume  de  faire ;  et  durant  les  jours  de  dictes 
ffunerailles,  facent  distribuer  aux  pauvres,  la  somme  de  Mil 
livres,"  &c.§ 


*  History  of  Fotheringhay,  p.  79. 

t  Here  the  Queen  has  interlined — "  francoys  ou  escosoys,  qui  en  seront 
capables." 

^An  abbreviation  for  "chacun." — R.  P.  I. 

§  Here  Mary  has  added — "  et  comtitue  une  messe  aux  carnies ;  through 
which  a  pen  was  afterwards  drawn. 


Introduction.  xi 

In  this  Will  (of  which  Principal  Robertson  has 
preserved  a  copy,  Vol.  2.  No.  xi.  of  his  Appendix, 
'*  incorrectly  and  not  fully  transcribed,  by  the 
Revd  Mr.  Crawford"*)  Queen  Mary  appointed  the 
Duke  of  Guise,  her  cousin-german,  the  Archbishop 
of  Glasgow,!  her  ambassador,  the  Bishop  of  Ross,! 
her  high-almoner,  and  Monsieur  de  Ruysseau,  her 
chancellor,  Executors.  Immediately  after  conclud- 
ing her  Will,  Mary  wrote  the  following  interesting 
Letter  to  the  Duke  of  Guise  ;  which  is  here  given, 
as  translated  by  the  Author  of  the  History  and 
Antiquities  of  Fotheringhay. 


LETTER,  by  Queen  Mary,  to  the  Duke  of  Guise : 

written  on  the  Morning  of  her  Death, 

Wednesday,  8th  Feb?-  1587. 

Sir,  my  Brother-in-law, 

Hauing  by  the  divine  permission,  for  my  sins  I 
believe,  thrown  myself  into  the  arms  of  this  Queen,  my  cousin, 
where  I  have  many  enemies,  above  twenty  years  since ;  I  am  at 
length,  by  her  and  her  parliament,  condemned  to  die ;  and 
having  asked  for  my  Papers,  which  they  have  taken  away,  in 
order  to  make  my  Will,  I  cannot  get  back  any  that  were  of  use 
to  me,  nor  obtain  leave,  to  make  a  free  Will ;  nor,  that  after  my 
death,  my  body  should  be  conveyed,  according  to  my  desire, 

•History  of  Fotheringhay,  p.  vii. 

f  James  Beaton,  appointed  to  the  See  of  Glasgow,  1551.  At  the  Reforma- 
tion, he  retired  with  the  French  troops  to  France;  and  carried  along  with 
him,  all  the  records  of  his  See.— Died  there  1603,  aged  86.  Ibid.  ix. 

tjohn  Lesley,  her  faithful  servant,  Bishop  o  Ross  from  1564-5.  Died  at 
Brussels,  1596,  aged  69.  Ibid. 


xii  Introduction, 

into  your  kingdom,  where  I  have  had  the  honour  to  be  a  Queen 
your  sister,  and  ancient  ally. 

This  day,*  after  dinner,  my  sentence,  without  longer  respite, 
was  read  to  me,t  to  be  executed  to-morrow,  at  Eight  in  the 
morning,  as  a  Criminal.  I  have  not  had  time  to  enlarge  on 
what  has  past ;  but  if  you  please  to  ask  my  physician,  and  these 
my  other  afflicted  servants,  you  will  hear  the  truth,  and  that, 
thanks  be  to  God,  I  despise  death,  and  faithfully  protest,  that  I 
meet  it,  innocent  of  every  crime ;  were  I  their  subject,  which  I 
never  was.  The  Catholic  religion,  and  the  defence  of  the  rights, 
which  God  has  given  me  to  this  Crown,  are  the  two  points  of  my 
Condemnation. — Yet,  I  fear  they  will  not  permit  me  to  say,  that 
I  died  for  my  religion,  but  for  fear  of  making  a  change  in  theirs : 
and,  for  a  proof  of  it,  they  have  taken  from  me  my  almoner, 
who,  tho'  he  is  in  the  house,  I  cannot  obtain  leave  for  him  to 
come  and  confess  me,  and  give  me  the  Communion,  at  my 
death ;  but  they  are  very  pressing  that  I  should  receive  comfort 
and  instruction  from  their  Minister,  brought  hither  for  that 
purpose.  The  bearer  of  this,  and  his  companions,  most  of  them 
your  subjects,  will  inform  you  of  my  behaviour  in  my  last 
moments. — It  remains,  that  I  beseech  you,  as  the  most  Christian 
King,  my  brother-in-law,  my  ancient  ally,  and  who  have  done  me 
the  great  honour  to  protest  that  you  love  me ;  that  on  this  occa- 
sion, you  would  give  proofs,  in  all  these  points,  of  your  virtuous 
disposition;  the  one,  out  of  Charity,  relieving  me,  of  what  to 
discharge  myself  and  my  Conscience,  I  cannot  do  without  you, 
to  reward  my  afflicted  servants,  by  leaving  them  their  wages ;  the 
other,  in  praying  to  God  for  a  Queen,  who  has  borne  the  name 
of  Most  Christian,  and  dies  a  Catholic,  and  bereft  of  all  her 
possessions.  As  for  my  son,  I  recommend  him  to  you,  as  far  as 
he  shall  deserve  your  favor ;  for  I  cannot  answer  for  him  :  but 
for  my  servants,  I  beseech  you  with  folded  hands.  I  have  taken 

•Tuesday  is  here  meant. 

t  By  the  Earls  of  Shrewsbury  and  Kent. 


Introduction.  xiii 

the  liberty  to  send  you  two  stones,  of  rare  virtue  for  health, 
wishing  you  may  enjoy  it,  uninterrupted,  with  long  and  happy 
life.  You  will  receive  them,  as  from  your  most  affectionate 
sister-in-law,  dying,  and  bearing  witness  of  her  good  disposition 
towards  you.  I  will  recommend  to  you  my  servants,  by  a  written 
paper ;  and  appoint,  that  for  my  soul,  I  may  be  paid  in  part  of 
what  you  owe  me ;  and  that  in  honour  of  Jesus,  to  whom  I  shall 
to-morrow,  at  my  death,  pray  for  you,  you  would  leave  me 
wherewith  to  found  an  obit,  and  do  the  necessary  alms.  This 
Wednesday,  two  o'clock  after  midnight. 

Your  affectionate  and  good  sister, 
MARY,  R.' 


(On  a  separate  paper.) 

"  Mem.  of  my  last  requests  to  the  King,  to  cause  to  be  paid 
to  me  what  is  owing  to  me,  both  of  my  pensions,  and  the  money 
advanced  by  the  late  Queen,  my  Mother,  in  Scotland,  for  the 
service  of  the  King,  my  father,  in  these  parts ;  at  least,  till  an 
annual  obit  be  founded  for  my  soul ;  and  the  alms  and  little 
foundations  promised  by  me,  be  completed. 

Further,  that  he  allow  me  to  enjoy  my  dowry,  a  year  after  my 
death,  to  reward  my  servants. 

Further,  that  he  be  pleased  to  let  them  enjoy  their  wages  and 
pensions  for  life ;  as  was  done  for  the  officers  of  Queen  Eleanor. 

Further,  I  beseech  him  to  take  my  physician  into  his  service, 
and  to  give  credit  to  what  he  shall  say ;  and  to  pay  regard  to 
my  recommendation  of  him.* 

Further,  1  will  that  my  almoner  be  re-placed  in  his  rank,  and 
on  my  account,  be  presented  to  some  little  benefice,  to  pray  to 
God  for  my  soul,  the  rest  of  his  life. 

Further,  that  Didier,  an  old  servant  of  my  table,t  to  whom  I 

*  De  1'avoir  pour  recommande. 
t  Officier  de  ma  bouche. 


xiv  Introduction. 

have  given  a  place  in  the  Rolls,*  for  his  reward,  may  enjoy  it 
during  life,  being  very  old. 

Done,  this  morning  of  my  death.  Wedn.  Feb.  8. 

MARY,  R." 


Even  the  dead  body  of  this  ill-fated  Princess  was 
exposed  to  shocking  indignities,  which  it  would  be 
disgusting  to  humanity  to  relate.  It  is  enough  to 
notice  one  example,  which  can,  with  propriety,  be 
mentioned  ;  that  none  of  her  women  were  suffered 
to  perform  the  last  offices  to  their  departed  mistress, 
or  even  to  come  near  her  dead  body,  which  was 
carried  by  some  of  her  attendants  into  a  room, 
adjoining  the  place  of  execution  where  it  lay  for 
some  days,  covered  with  a  coarse  cloth,  torn  from  a 
billiard  table.t 

By  order  of  Walsingham,  the  body  had  been 
embalmed,  under  the  care  of  Andrews,  the  Sheriff; 
and  placed  in  a  leaden  coffin,  in  the  Castle  of 
Fotheringhay ;  where  it  remained  from  the  8th 
February  until  the  ist  August  following;  being 
nearly  six  months  from  the  day  of  her  Execution. 

The  interment  of  the  Queen  was  thus  most 
unaccountably  and  cruelly  neglected  by  Elizabeth, 
amidst  her  real  or  pretended  sorrows,  for  having 
so  rashly  signed  the  death-warrant.  In  order, 


*  Une  greffe,  or  a  Clerk's  place. 

t  Robertson's  Hist,  of  Scot.  Book  vii.  p.  412,  &c. 


Introduction.  xv 

however,  to  avert,  as  much  as  possible,  the  just 
indignation  of  Europe,  for  such  an  unparalleled  act 
of  violence  to  Majesty,  Elizabeth  punished  her 
Secretary,  Davidson,*  for  presuming  to  take  down 
the  fatal  warrant ;  which,  she  pretended,  was  never 
meant  by  her  to  be  carried  into  execution,  but  was 
to  be  kept  private,  by  the  Secretary,  until  express 
orders  to  the  contrary. — Still  further  to  impose  on 
the  public  mind,  and  after  having  seriously  weighed 
the  consequences,  she  at  length  decreed  the  decapi- 
tated Queen  the  honours  of  a  Royal  Funeral.  Dr. 
Robertson  well  remarks  t  that  this  vulgar  artifice 
was  employed  in  vain.  The. pageantry  of  a  pompous 
funeral  could  never  efface  the  memory  of  those 
injuries,  which  laid  Mary  in  her  grave. 

About  sixteen  years  after  the  interment,  James  I. 
desired  that  a  public  funeral  ceremony  should  take 
place  at  Peterborough;  which,  as  we  learn  from 
Noble,  was  celebrated  with  suitable  splendour.! 

*  Davidson,  who  solemnly  denied  he  had  received  any  instructions  from 
Q.  Elizabeth,  not  to  suffer  the  warrant  to  be  executed,  or  to  go  out  of  his 
hands,  without  her  special  permission,  was  deprived  of  his  office,  closely 
confined  to  the  Tower,  during  pleasure,  and  fined  .£10,000  Sterling  :  and 
thus  fell  a  victim  to  State-policy,  one  of  the  most  able  and  virtuous  men  of 
that  age.  This  fine,  James  I.  with  his  usual  meanness,  and  to  his  everlasting 
disgrace,  accepted  of,  as  a  peace-offering  from  Elizabeth,  for  the  murder  of 
his  mother. 

t  Robertson's  History  of  Scotland,  Book  vii.  p.  412. 

J "  Con  versus  hinc  ad  officia  pietatis,  ne  matris  reliquias,  Petroburgi 
inhonoratas  pateretur,  addidit  gloriam  ;  cineres  pompa  funeris  ornavit  ;  eique 
ample,  magnifice,  summaque  Religione,  justa  persoluit.  Nulla  reddi  mortuse 
alia  dignitas,  nullam  majorem  pietatis  significationem  praebere  potuit,  quam 
honorem  sepulturze.  Dethicum,  Fsecialium  Regemmi  sit,  ut  publico  funere 
efferret  Episcopus  et  Decanus  Petroburgensis.  Plerique  Equestris  Ordinis, 
ac  maxima  vulgari  frequentia,  ad  cohonestandas  exequias,  ex  prsescripto 
Principis,  convenerunt.  Hie  honos  memorise  Matris  habitus."— -Johnstoni 
Hhtoria  Rerum  Brit.  Amst.  1655.  fol.  374. 


xvi  Introduction* 

"Sir  William  Dethick,  Garter,  attended  the 
solemnity  of  the  funeral  of  Mary,  Queen  of  Scots, 
1 4th  August,  1603. — James  I.,  her  son,  sent  him  to 
Peterborough,  with  a  rich  pall  of  velvet,  embroidered 
with  the  arms  of  Mary ;  and  with  a  letter  to  the 
Bishop  of  that  see,  to  obtain  leave  to  place  it  upon 
the  Coffin  of  the  Queen  ;  which  being  acquiesced 
with,  he,  assisted  by  many  knights  and  gentlemen, 
and  accompanied  by  a  vast  concourse  of  people, 
placed  it  over  the  tomb  of  the  unfortunate  victim 
to  state  necessity.  A  sermon  upon  the  occasion 
was  delivered  by  the  Bishop,  in  the  morning ;  at 
noon,  the  Company  received  a  magnificent  dinner ; 
in  the  afternoon,  the  Dean  preached  a  sermon, 
relative  to  the  late  Queen."* 

Having,  nine  years  after  this  ceremony,  (and 
twenty-five  years  after  the  interment  at  Peterbo- 
rough,) determined  to  remove  the  body  of  his 
Mother  to  the  Chapel  of  Henry  VII,  Westminster, 
James  I.  addressed  the  following  Letter,  which  is 
taken  from  the  Records  of  that  Church,t  to  the 
Dean  and  Chapter  of  Peterborough. \ 

"To  our  trusty  and  well-beloved,  the  Dean  and  Chapter  of 
our  Cathedral  Church  of  Peterborough  ;  and  in  their  absence,  to 
the  Right  Reverend  Father  in  God,  the  Bishop  of  Peterborough  ; 


*  Noble's  History  of  the  College  of  Arms,  p.  200. 

f  Reg.  Neville,  p.  327. 

j  Antiquities  of  Fotheringhay,  p.  59. 


Introduction.  xvii 

and  to  such  of  the  Prebendaries,  and  other  officers  of  the  church, 
as  shall  be  found  there. 
JAMES  R. 

Trusty  and  well-beloved,  we  greet  you  well ;  for  that 
we  think  it  appertains  to  the  duty,  we  owe  to  our  dearest  mother, 
that  like  honour  should  be  done  to  her  body,  and  like  monument 
be  extant  of  her,  as  others,  hers  and  our  progenitors,  have  been 
used  to  be  done ;  and  ourselves  have  already  performed,  to  our 
dear  sister,  the  late  Queen  Elizabeth ;  we  have  commanded  a 
memorial  of  her,  to  be  made  in  our  Church  of  Westminster  ;  the 
place,  where  the  Kings  and  Queens  of  this  realm,  are  usually 
interred :  and  for  that  we  think  it  inconvenient,  that  the  monu- 
ment and  her  body,  should  be  in  several  places;  we  have  ordered, 
that  her  said  body,  remaining  now  interred  in  that  our  Cathedral 
church  of  Peterborough,  shall  be  removed  to  Westminster,  to  her 
said  monument :  and  have  committed  the  charge  of  the  said 
translation  of  her  body,  from  Peterborough  to  Westminster,  to 
the  Reverend  father  in  God,  our  right  trusty  and  well-beloved 
servant,  the  Bishop  of  Coventry  and  Lichfield,*  bearer  hereof; 
to  whom  we  require  you,  (or  to  such  as  he  shall  assign)  to  deliver 
the  corps  of  our  said  dearest  mother,  the  same  being  taken  up, 
in  as  decent  and  respectful  a  manner,  as  is  fitting.  And  for  that 
there  is  a  pall  now  upon  the  hearse,  over  her  grave,t  which  will 
be  requisite  to  be  used,  to  cover  her  said  body,  in  the  removing 
thereof,  which  may  perhaps  be  deemed  as  a  fee,  that  should 
belong  to  the  Church;  we  have  appointed  the  said  reverend 

*  Richard  Neale,  Dean  of  Westminster,  and  Clerk  of  the  Closet,  to  James  I, 
and  Charles  I.  He  was  made  Bishop  of  Rochester  in  1608,  (holding  his 
Deanery  also,  in  Commendani) ;  translated  to  Lichfield  and  Coventry,  1610 ; 
to  Lincoln,  1613;  to  Durham,  1617;  to  Winchester,  1628;  and  to  York, 
1631  ;  where  he  died,  in  1640,  and  was  buried  in  All  Saints'  Chapel,  in  that 
Cathedral ;  but  no  memorial  of  him  exists.  He  left  a  large  fortune,  which 
was  soon  dissipated  by  his  worthless  son. 

t  This  is  the  same  pall  which  was  placed  upon  the  hearse,  at  the  solemnity, 
I4th  Augt.  1603,  (nine  years  before,)  that  James  here  so  anxiously  bargains 
for,  in  his  Letter. 

C 


xviii  Introduction. 

father,  to  pay  you  a  reasonable  redemption,  for  the  same ;  which 
being  done  by  him,  we  require  you,  that  he  may  have  the  pall, 
to  be  used  for  the  purpose  aforesaid.  GIVEN  under  our  Signet, 
at  our  honour  of  Hampton  Court,  the  eight  and  twentieth  day  of 
September,  in  the  tenth  year  of  our  reign  of  England,  France, 
and  Ireland ;  and  of  Scotland,  the  six  and  fortieth.* 

The  execution  of  these  Letters,  is  thus  entered : 
"  These  Letters  were  delivered  to  the  Right  Reverend  father 
in  God,  the  Lord  Bishop  of  Peterborough,  and  to  me,  Henry 
Williamson,  one  of  the  Prebends  of  the  said  Cathedral  Church, 
in  the  absence  of  the  Dean,  and  the  rest  of  our  Prebends,  and 
the  contents  thereof  were  executed  the  fourth  day  of  October, 
in  the  year  aforesaid. 

(signed)  W.  K."t 

Although  the  Ceremonial,  on  the  translation  of  \ 
the  Body  from  Peterborough  to  the  Chapel  of 
Henry  VII,  would  be  attended  with  every  circum- 
stance of  State,  which  the  manners  of  that  reign 
required,  and  would,  of  course,  be  sufficiently 
public  and  notorious  at  the  time,  yet  the  Editor 
has  not  been  fortunate  enough  to  have  met  with  a 
detailed  account  of  the  Procession,  &c.  in  any  of  the 
Collections  of  State  Tracts,  or  otherwise.! 


*  History  of  Fotheringhay,  p.  59. 

t  "The  body  of  the  Queen  of  Scots,  was  taken  up,  the  Eleventh  day  of 
October  following,  in  the  year  of  our  Lord  1612,  and  translated  to  West- 
minster."— Ibid. 

JCaeterum,  Pietatem,  mansuetudinemq.  Jacobi  Regis,  testatur  defunctse 
Mariae,  habitus  honos  maximus.  Ossa  ejus,  quse  erant  Petroburgi,  in  Templo 
illius  civitatis  maximo,  condita,  ad  Urbem  Regiam  translata;  et  honorifice, 
majorum  Mausoleo  illata.  Episcopus  Leichfieldensis,  a  Petroburgo  usque  ad 
suburbium  Civitatis,  deportavit.  Ibi,  Archiepiscopus,  Prsetor  Egertonius, 


Introduction.  xix 

It  would,  indeed,  be  a  singular  circumstance,  if 
no  official  statement  was  drawn  up  at  the  time,  or 
if  no  pamphlets  were  published,  for  the  satisfaction 
of  the  public ;  for  accounts  of  the  Funerals  of  Queen 
Elizabeth  and  Prince  Henry,  and  of  several  other 
distinguished  characters,  on  similar  occasions,  were 
published,  apparently  by  authority,  at  the  time 
that  these  ceremonies  took  place ; — and  it  is  not 
very  likely  that  a  Prince  of  James's  disposition 
would  not  take  the  whole  merit  of  this  pious  act,  on 
his  part.  No  such  account,  however,  is  known  to 
have  existed. 

On  the  re-interment  of  Mary,  in  the  Chapel  of 
Henry  VII,  a  very  splendid  monument  was  erected 
to  her  memory  ;  which  Walpole  informs  us,*  cost, 
together  with  the  monument  of  Queen  Elizabeth, 
and  King  James's  daughters,  the  Princesses  Mary 
and  Sophia,  Three  Thousand  Five  Hundred  pounds 
Sterling. — Of  these,  Queen  Elizabeth's  Monument, 
alone,  cost  ^965^  besides  the  stone  ;  and  it  is  pre- 
sumed that  Mary's  was  not  less,  but  rather  more, 
expensive.  Tablets  of  marble  were  placed  on  the 

qui  plura  defunctse,  quam  vivse  prsestitit  officia ;  Privati  Sigilli  custos,  et 
complures  homines  nobilissimi,  ac  primarij  Antistites,  multa  face  susceperunt : 
Templo  D.  Petri,  Fanoq.  Henrici  Septimi,  Avi,  ornatissimo  intulerunt. 
Extruxit  autem  Jacobus,  eo  in  loco,  Monumentum,  in  honorem  matris, 
amplissimum  ;  atque  Marmoreo  in  Sepulchre,  sua  impensa  exsedificato,  condi 
jussit ;  et  praeposuit  Effigiem,  praeclare  factam,  e  Marmore  :  nihilique  prseter- 
misit,  quod  ad  memoriam  ejus,  excogitari  poterat ;  propter  singularem  amorem 
et  observantiam.— -Johnstoni  Historia.  Fol.  481. 

*Walpole's  Anecdotes  of  Painting,  i.  p.  288. 

tlbid. 


xx  Introduction. 


north  and  south  sides  of  this  splendid  tomb  and  on 
the  cornices.*  These  contain  the  following  Epitaph, 
&c.  stating  her  royal  descent  and  kingly  relations, 
her  extraordinary  endowments,  both  of  body  and 
mind,  the  troubles  of  her  life,  her  constancy  in 
Religion,  and  her  resolution  in  death. 


INSCRIPTIONS 

on  the  Monument  Erected  to  the  Memory  of  Mary,  Queen 

of  Scots,  in  Westminster  Abbey. 

(On  the  South  side  of  the  Tomb.) 

D.  O.  M. 

Bonse  memoriae  et  Spei  aeternae 

Marias  Stuartae,  Scotorum  Reginse,  Francise  Dotariae,  Jacobi  V- 
Scotorum  Regis,  filiae  et  haeredis  unicae:  Henrici  VII.  Angl. 
Regis,  ex  Margareta  majori  nata  filiae,  (Jacobi  IIII.  Regi  Scotorum, 
matrimonio  Copulatae) ;  Proneptis  Edwardi  IIII.  Angl.  Regis,  ex 
Elizabetha  filiarum  suarum  natu  maxima;  abneptis  Francisci  II. 
Gallorum  R.  Conjugis;  Coronae  Angl.  dum  vixit,  certae  et 
indubitatae  haeredis ;  et  Jacobi,  rnagnae  Brit.  Monarchse  poten- 
tissimi  matris.  Stirpe  vere  Regia  et  antiquissima,  prognata  erat : 
maximis  totius  Europae  principibus,  agnatione  et  cognatione 
conjuncta;  et  exquisitissimis  animi  et  corporis  dotibus  et  orna- 
mentis,  cumulatissima ;  (verum,  ut  sunt  variae  rerum  humanarum 
vices,)  postquam  annos  plus  minus  viginti,  in  custodia  detenta? 
fortiter  et  strenue  (sed  frustra),  cum  malevolorum  suspicionibus, 
et  inimicorum  capitalium  insidijs  conflicta  esset;  tandem  inaudito, 
et  infesto  regibus  exemplo,  securi  percutitur;  et  contempto 
mundo,  devicta  morte  lassato  carnifice  Christo  servatori  animse 
salutem,  Jacobo  filio,  spem  regni,  et  posteritatis  et  universi,  caedis 

*See  Chalmers'  Life,  &c.  of  Mary,  8vo.  1822,  ii.  203. 


Introduction.  xxi 

infaustse,  spectatoribus  exemplum  patientise  commendans,  pi£, 
patienter,  intrepide,  cervicem  regiam,  securi  maledictae  subjecit, 
et  vitae  caducae  fortem,  cum  coelestis  regni  perennitate  com- 
mutavit.  Vi  Idus  Februarij,  Anno  Christi,  MDLXXXVII.  ^Etatis, 

XXXXVI. 


(On  the  North  side  of  the  Monument.) 
SI  GENERIS  SPLENDOR  RARJE  SI  GRATIA  FORMJE 

PROBRI  NESCIA  MENS  INVIOLATA  FIDES 
PECTORIS  INVICTI  ROBUR  SAPIENTIA  CANDOR 

NIXAQUE  SOLANTIS  SPES  PIETATE  DEI 
SI  MORUM  PROBITAS  DVRI  PATIENTIA  FR^ENI 

MAJESTAS  BONITAS  PVRA  BENIGNA  MANVS 
PALLIDA  FORTVN^E  POSSINT  VITARE  TONANTIS 

FVLMINA  QWE  MONTES  TEMPLAQUE  SANCTA  PETVNT 
NON  PR^MATVRA  FATORVM  SORTE  PERISSET 

NEC  FIERET  M^ESTIS  TRISTIS  IMAGO  GENIS 
IVRE  SCOTOS  THALAMO  FRANCOS  SPE  POSSIDET  ANGLOS 

TRIPLICE  SIC  TRIPLEX  JVRE  CORONA  BEAT. 
F^ELIX  HEV  NIMIVM  F^LIX  SI  TVRBINE  PVLSA 

VICINAM  SERO  CONCILIASSET  OPEM 
SED  CADIT  VT  TERRAM  TENEAT  NVNC  MORTE  TRIVMPHAT 

FRVCTIBVS  UT  SVA  STIRPS  PULLULET  INDE  NOVIS 
VICTA  NEQVIT  VINCI  NEC  CARCERE  CLAUSA  TENER 

NON  OCCISA  MORI  SED  NEQUE  CAPTA  CAPI 
SIC  VITIS  SVCCISA  GEMIT  FCECVNDIOR  VVIS 

SCVLPTAQVE  PVRPVREO  GEMMA  DECORE  MICAT 
OBRUTA  FRVGISERO  SENSIM  SIC  CESPITE  SVRGUNT 

SEMINA  PER  MVLTOS  QV^E  LATVERE  DIES 
SANGVINE  SANCIVIT  FCEDUS  CVM  PLEBE  JEHOVA 

SANGVINE  PLACABANT  NVMINA  SANCTA  PATRES 
SANGUINE  CONSPERSI  QVOS  PRETERIT  IRA  PENATES 

SANGUINE  SIGNATA  EST  QUJE  MODO  CEDIT  HUMVS 


xxii  Introduction. 

PARCE  DEUS  SATIS  EST  INFANDOS  SISTE  DOLORES 

INTER  FUNESTOS  PERVOLET  ILLA  DIES 
SIT  REG  ES  MACTARE  NEFAS  VT  SANGVINE  POSTHAC 

PVRPVREO  NVNQVAM  TERRA  BRITANNA  FLVAT 
EXEMPLUM  PEREAT  C^S^  CUM  VOLNERE  CHRISTIE 

INQUE  MALUM  PR^CEPS  AUTHOR  ET  ACTOR  EST 
SI  MELIORE  SUI  POST  MORTEM  PARTE  TRIUMPHET 

CARNIFICES  SILEANT  TORMINA  CLAUSTRA  CRUCES 
QUEM  DEDERANT  CURSUM  SUPERI  REGINA  PEREGIT 

TEMPORA  IJETA  DEUS  TEMPORA  DURA  DEDIT 
EDIDIT  EXIMIUM  FATO  PROPERANTE  JACOBUM 

QUEM  PALLAS  MUSJE  DELIA  FATA  COLUNT 
MAGNA  VIRO  MAIOR  NATU  SED  MAXIMA  PARTU 

CONDITUR  HIC  REGUM  FILIA  SPONSA  PARENS 
DET  DEUS  UT  NATI  ET  QUI  NASCENTUR  AB  ILLA 

^ETERNOS  VIDEANT  HINC  SINE  NUBE  DIES. 
(H.  N.  Gemens.) 


(Over  the  Cornice  at  the  Head  of  the  Monument.) 

I  Pet.  2.  21. 

Christus,  pro  nobis  passus  est ;  reliquens 
exemplum,  ut  sequamini  vestigia  ejus. 

(Over  the  Cornice  at  the  Foot  of  the  Monument.) 

I  Pet.  2.  23. 
Qui  cum  ma/ediceretur,  non  maledicabat ; 

cum  pateretur,  non  comminabatur  ; 

tradebat  autem^  judicanti  justl* 


THE  FIRST  TRACT  contained  in  the  present  collec- 


*  Dart's  History  and  Antiquities  of  Westminster  Abbey,  p.  151 — plate  36. 


Introduction.  xxiii 

tion  is  almost  a  fac-simile  from  a  valuable  Tract, 
(supposed  to  be  unique,)  in  the  Library  of  the 
Faculty  of  Advocates.  It  was  purchased  at  the 
Sale  of  the  late  Duke  of  Roxburghe's  Library.* — • 
From  a  marking  on  the  top  of  the  Title-page  it 
appears  to  have  been  acquired  by  the  Duke  of 
Roxburghe  from  Mr.  Herbert,  Editor  of  Ames's 
Typographical  Antiquities ;  in  which  work  it  is 
noticed  by  him.t 

This  Tract  was  "  Printed  by  A.  J."  (Abel  Jeffes, 
stationer)  an  obscure  printer,  "for  Edward  Venge," 
stationer.  The  only  other  book  which  appears  to 
have  been  printed  by  or  for  Venge,  is  "A  most 
true  discourse,  declaring  the  damnable  lyfe  and 
deathe  of  one  Stabbe  Peter,  a  high  Jermayne  borne, 
a  Sorcerer ;  who,  in  the  likeness  of  a  Wolfe,  com- 
mitted many  murders,  25  years  together;  and  for 
the  same  was  executed  in  the  cytye  of  Bedbur,  near 
Coleyn,  31  March,  1590.  Licenced."! 

Owing  to  the  extreme  rarity  of  this  account  of  the 
Queen  of  Scots'  Burial,  it  has  been  thought  proper 
to  reprint  it,  as  nearly  as  possible,  in  the  shape  of 
the  original. 

With  regard  to  the  remainder  of  the  Tracts,  short 
Notices  have  been  inserted  on  the  back  of  each  of 


*No.  8744,  for  the  sum  of  Nine  Guineas,  (vid.  Roxb.  Catalogue.) 

tSee  Ames's  Typog.  Antiq.  pp.  387.  407. — and  Herbert,  pp.  1162.  1222. 

J  Herbert's  Typog.  Antiq.  p.  1222. 


XXIV 


Introduction. 


the  Titles ;  which  renders  it  unnecessary  to  make 
any  particular  mention  of  them  here. 

The  present  impression  *  has  been  limited  to  ONE 

HUNDRED  AND  TWFNTY-FIVE  COPIES,  for  Sale, 

R.  P.t 

EDINBURGH, 

24th  June,  1822. 

*  That  of  1822. 

t  Robert  Pitcairne,  R.  P.  I. 


Est  natura  hominum  no- 
uitatis  auida. 

THE    SCOTTISH 

Queens  Buriall  at  Peterbo- 
rough, upon  Tuesday 
beeing  Lammas 
day.      1587. 


LONDON. 

Printed  by  A.J.  for  Edwarde 

Venge,  and  are  to  be  fold 

at  his  shop  without 

Bishops-gate. 


The  Scottish  Queei.es  Butiall  at  Peterbo- 
rough^ vpon  Tuesday,  being  Lam- 
mas day.     1587. 


HER    bodie   was    brought    in    a    Coutch    (about    100 
attending  thereon)  from  Fotheringham  castell  vpon 
Sonday  at  night,  the  Bishop  of  Peterborough,  the 
Deane,  the   Prebendes,  and   the  rest   meeting   the 
same  at  the  Bridge,  being  not  far  from  the  town,  and  so  con- 
ueighed    it    to   the    Bishops    Pallace,    and   from    thence   vpon 
Tuesday  being  Lammas  day,  was  caried  to  the  Church  where  she 
was  buried  on  the  south  side  of  the  hearse  by  torch  light. 

The  Hearse  was  made  field-bed  wise,  the  vallance  of  blacke 
veluet  with  a  golde  fringe,  the  top  of  the  imperiall  couered  wite 
Baies  :  About  it  was  set  10  Posies,  In  my  defence  God  me  defend 
with  10  Scutchions  greate  and  litle,  and  at  the  toppe  a  double  one 
with  a  Crowne  imperiall  thereupon.  The  supporters,  Unicornes 
with  100  Pendons  or  litle  Flags  :  It  was  impaled  with  Baies,  and 
in  it  14  stooles  with  blacke  veluet  cushions  :  vpon  the  pillers 
sustaining  the  imperiall  of  the  Hearse,  the  which  were  all  couered 
with  veluet,  were  fixed  Scutcheons,  bearing  either  red  Lion  alone 
or  els  parted  with  the  Armes  of  France,  or  with  the  Armes  of  the 


4  The  Scottish  Queenes  Bur  tall 

Lorde  Ltneaux.     The  Church  and  Chancell  were  hanged  with 
baies,    and   Sutchions    as    at   other   Funerals.      The   Mourners 
came  out  of  the  Bishops    pallace,   being  set  in  order    by  the 
Herralds     thus.      First     100     Releeuants     poore    old    women, 
for    the   most    part    widowes    in    blacke    cloth    gownes,    with 
an   ell  of  white    Holland   ouer   their   heades,  which    they   had 
for    their    labor,    and    9    shillings   apiece   in    monie :      These 
diuided   themselues   in   the   bodie   of   the   Church,    and   stood 
halfe  on  the  one  side,  and  halfe  on  the  other,  and  there  stood 
during  the  whole  solemnitie.     At  the  Church  doore  the  singing 
men  and  Quiristers  met  the  Mourners  with  a  psalme,  and  led 
them  the  way  into  the  Chancell,  continuing  singing  with  the 
Organs  vntill  the  sermon  began.     Then  followed  two  yeomen, 
viz.  the  Sherifes  bailiefe,  and  the  bailiefe  of  Peterborough,  with 
black  staues,  and  after  them  mourning  coates.     Then  Sir  Nicholas 
Sauell  in  a  mourning  gowne  carrieng  the  great  Standard,  viz.  a 
Crosse  in  a  Field  Azur :  the  Streamer,  an  Unicorne  Argent  in  a 
field  of  Guiles,  a  poesie  written,  In  my  defence  God  me  defend. 
Then   followed   mourning   cloakes   by    two   and   two,  a  greate 
number,   whereof  the  first  were  late  the  Queens  officers,  and 
after  them  mourning  gownes  :  Among  these  officers  of  her  house 
was  a  French  Jesuit  her  Confessor,  with  a  golden  Crucifix  about 
his  necke,  which  he  did  weare  openly,  and  being  tolde  that  the 
people  murmured  and  disliked  at  it,  he  said  he  would  do  it, 
though  he  died  for  it.      Thus  wee  may  see  how  obdurate  their 
hearts  are  in  malice,  and  how  obstinate  they  shewe  themselves  in 
the  vaine  toies  and  superstitious  trifles  of  their  owne  imaginations. 
Then  the  Deane,  next  the  two  Bishops  of  Peterborough  and 
Lincolne,  the  L.  Willoughby  of  Parhan,  the  L.  Mordant,  the  L. 
Compton,   Sir  Thomas   Cicel  all   fower  in   gownes  with  white 
staues,   representing   the   Steward,   Chamberlain,   Tresurer,   and 
Controller:  after  these  16  Scottes  and  Frenchmen  which  had  bin 
officers  in  her  house :  then  Sir  Andrew  Nowel  alone,  carieng  the 
banner  of  Scotland:   then  Percullis   the  Harralde  bearing;  the 


at  Peterborough.  5 

Crowne  and  Crest,  thereon  a  red  Lion  rampant  crowned,  holding 
a  sword  the  point  vpward,  the  Helmet  ouermanteled  Guiles 
poudered  ermyne :  then  the  Target  by  Roge  Dragon :  the 
Sword  by  Yorke :  the  coat  of  Armes  by  Somerset.  Then 
Clarenceaux  with  a  Gentleman  at  Armes.  Then  followed  the 
Coffin  couered  with  a  paule  of  veluet,  six  Scutchions  fixed  theron, 
vpon  the  head  whereof  stood  a  Crowne  of  Gold,  6  Gentlemen 
bearing  the  Corps  vnder  a  veluet  canapie  born  by  these  4 
Knights  :  viz.  Sir  Thomas  Manners,  Sir  John  Hastings,  Sir 
James  Harrington  and  Sir  John  Knightlie  :  eight  other  banorets 
borne  by  8  Squires,  4  on  either  side  of  the  Coffin.  After  the 
Corps  came  the  heade  Mourner,  the  Countesse  of  Bedford, 
assisted  by  the  two  Earles  of  Rutland  and  Lincolne.  The  Lady 
Saint-Johns  of  Basing  bearing  her  train.  Then  followed  by  two 
and  two  other  Ladies :  the  L.  Talbot,  the  L.  Mordant,  the  L. 
Sauell,  the  L.  Manners,  the  L.  Cecil,  the  L.  Mountegew,  the 
Lady  Nowell.  The  other  Gentlemen.  The  ten  Scottish  and 
French  women  of  the  Queens  with  black  attire  on  their  heads, 
of  taffate  before,  and  behind  white  Lawne,  hanging  downe  like 
French-hoodes.  They  with  the  Scottish  and  French  men  did  all 
go  out  before  the  Sermon  (except  M.  Meluin  who  staied)  and 
the  rest  came  in  when  it  was  ended :  the  head  Mourner,  and  the 
Ladies,  with  the  two  Earles  assistants  were  placed  within  the 
Hearse :  the  two  Knights  with  their  banners  were  set  at  the  east 
end  of  the  Hearse  without  the  pale,  and  the  eight  squires  with 
their  bannorets,  4  of  a  side  in  like  manner  without  the  pale. 
Al  the  rest  of  the  Mourners  were  carried  vp  by  an  Harrald 
above  the  Hearse,  and  placed  of  each  side,  the  women  next  the 
altar.  The  Bishop  and  the  Deane  standing  at  the  Altar  with 
two  gilded  basons,  al  which  being  placed  and  set,  and  the  Church 
quiet,  the  Bishop  of  Lincolne  began  his  Sermon,  and  in  his 
praier  vsed  these  wordes,  "Let  vs  blesse  God  for  the  happie 
dissolution  of  Marie,  late  the  Scottish  Queen  and  Dowager  of 
France :  of  whose  life  and  departure,  whatsoeuer  shall  be 


6  The  Scottish  Queenes  Buriall 

expected,  I  haue  nothing  to  say,  for  that  I  was  vnacquainted 
with  the  one,  and  not  present  at  the  other,  of  her  M.  faith  and 
end  I  am  not  to  iudge :  It  is  a  charitable  saieng  of  the  Father 
Luther  :  Many  one  liueth  a  Papist,  and  dieth  a  Protestant : 
Onely  this  I  haue  bene  enformed,  that  she  tooke  her  death 
patiently,  and  recommended  her  self  wholy  to  Jesus  Christ." 

The  Sermon  ended,  a  long  peece  of  veluet  and  a  cushion  was 
caried  and  laid  for  the  Countesse  to  go  and  kneele  vpon,  hard 
before  the  Bishops  feete,  then  by  the  King  of  Harralds  were 
caried  the  four  officers  with  their  white  staues,  and  placed  two  at 
the  top  of  the  staires  vnder  the  Bishop  and  two  beneath  them 
Then  the  two  principal  Harralds  fetched  up  the  Countesse,  the 
two  Earles  leading  her,  and  the  Lady  Saint-Johns  bearing  vp  her 
train :  there  she  kneeled  a  while,  and  then  all  returned  to  their 
places,  this  was  the  first  offering  (not  that  Brakenburie  went  this 
time  before  her)     The  two  Earles  placed  without  the  pale  before 
the  Countesse,  one  of  the  Kinges  of  Harralds  fetched  from  the 
Hearse  the  coat  armor  brought  it  downe  to  the  other  King  of 
Harralds,  and  he  deliuered  it  to  the  two   Earls,  they  caried   it 
(obeisance  beeing  done  to  the  Countesse)  to  the  Bishop,  and 
kissed  it  in  deliuering  of  it.     A  third  Harrald  tooke  it  of  the 
Bishop  and  laide  it  downe  on  the  Altar,  the  Sword,  the  Target, 
the  Helmet,  Crowne,  and  Crest  in  like  sort  was  all  done  by  the 
two  Earles,  kissing  their  hands  before  them  :  then  were  Jthe  two 
banners   caried   by  one   after  another   seuerally   by   those  that 
brought  them,  and  so  set  vpon  the  Altar,  leaning  to  the  wal,  the 
other  8  Bannorets  were  put  into  the  Hearse  as  they  stood.     Then 
went  the  Countesse,  M.  John  Manners  holding  vppe  her  traine 
the  second  time,  and  offered  alone  to  the  Bishop. 

Then  the  Ladies  and  Gentlewomen  by  two  and  two  went  vp 
and  offered,  then  the  officers  with  white  staues  offered :  and  last 
of  all  came  there  a  Harralde  to  the  pulpyt,  and  fetched  the 
Bishop  of  Lincolne,  and  then  the  most  part  of  the  Mourners 
departed  in  the  same  order  they  came  in,  and  toward  the  doore 


at  Peterborough.  7 

of  the  Chancell  stoode  the  Scottish  women  parted  on  both  sides, 
and  as  the  English  Ladies  passed  by,  they  kissed  them  all. 

Then  ouer  the  Vault  where  the  body  lay,  the  Deane  read  the 

ordinary  wordes  of  buriall,  an  this  being  done,  the 

foure  officers  brake  their  white  staues  ouer 

their  heads,  and  threw  them  into 

the  Vaulte. 


FINIS. 


THE 

ORDER 

FOR  THE  BURIALL 
FOR 

dueen  of 

ATT    PETERBOROUGH 
OBSERVED  THE  FIRST  OF  AUGUST 
ON  TUESDAYE 
1587- 


THE  following   account  oj  QUEEN    MARY'S    FUNERAL    PROGRESSION, 
(drawn  up  by  Sir  William  Dethicky  Garter  king  at  arms,)  is  taken  from 
Bibliotheca  Topographica  Britannica,  No.  XL.  article,  "  History  and  At 
quities  of  Fotherin°ay"  p.  75. 

//  seems  to  have  been  extracted  from  the  Harl.  MSS.  1345,  /.  45,  and  is  he 
given>  verbatim,  from  the  Bib.  Topog.  Brit. 

A  few  explanatory  notes  are  given  in  the  Appendix. 


furialt  far  jjlm$  (|u^n  o 
at  jtetyrtorottjlt,  flbsrad  tfy  <Jfipt  rrf 
August,  an 


Two  Conductors  with  ^  The  Sheryfes  Bailie,  and 

black  staves  in  the  Baylie  of 

coates.  J  Peterborough. 

Poore  men  (One  hundred)  in  gownes,  two  and  two. 

Two  Yeomen  ^  John  Hamshiere, 

harbingers  and 

in  clokes.  J  John  Keyes. 


THE  STANDARD 

Borne  by  Sir  George  Savill  knight. 

GENTLEMEN  IN  CLOKES,  TWO  AND  TWO,  Vldelizet. 

Syxe  Groomes. 
The  Deane  of  Peterborough's  man. 

Mr.  Stafforde's  sonne. 

Master  of  Wardrobe's  two  men. 

The  Bishope  of  Peterborough's  Stewarde. 

James  Rowland. 

Edward  Jackson. 

Richard  Kylefett. 

Robert  Cotton. 

The  Lorde  Compton,  one  man. 

The  Lady  St.  John,  of  Basinge,  one. 

The  Lorde  Willoughby  of  Parram,  one. 


12  The  Order  for  the  Buriall 

The  Lorde  Mordant,  and  Ladie,  two. 

The  Lorde  Dudley,  and  the  Ladie,  two. 

The  Lady  Marie  Savell,  one. 

The  Lady  Talbott,  one. 

The  Lord  St.  John,  and  the  Ladie,  two. 

The  Bishope  of  Peterborough,  one. 

The  Bishope  of  Lyncolne,  one. 

The  Erie  of  Lyncolne,  and  the  Countis,  three. 

The  old  Countis  of  Bedford,  chief  Mourner,  three. 

GENTLEMEN    IN   GOWNES. 

Mr.  Worme. 

Mr.  Rowland. 

Mr.  Horseman, 

Mr.  Femis,         J- Three  Sewars. 


Ten. 


Mr.  Creuse. 

Mr.  Watsonn. 

Mr.  Alyngton. 

Mr.  Marmaduke  Darrell. 

Docture  Fortescue  Thomas. 


SCOTTES   IN   CLOAKES, 

seventeen. 
A  Scottish  Priest. 

GOWNES. 

Two  Chaplayns  to  the  Bishops  aforesayde. 

Mr.  Fortescue,  master  of  Queene  Elizabeth's  wardrope. 

The  two  Bishopps,  Peturborough  and  Lincolne. 

THE   CREATE   BANNER. 

Borne  by  Sir  Andrew  Nowell. 
fMr  Melvin,  and  Sir  Edward  Montague,  "j 
-j  Comptroller  and  Treasurer  to  the  Queen  I 
l  of  Scottes. 


for  Marie  Queen  of  Scott s,  1 3 

The  Lord  Chamberlayne,   ^  _ 

The  Lord  Stewards,  J  Great  Officers. 

The  Lorde  Dudley. 

The  Lord  St.  John  of  Basnige.   (sic.} 

Two  Yeomen  of  the  garde,  in  clokes,  with  black  staves  in 

their  handes. 

THE   HALM    AND    CREASTE, 

borne  by pourcyvant  of  armes. 

THE   TARGETT, 

borne  by  Rouge  dragon,  a  pourcyvant  of  armes. 

THE   COATE   OF   ARMES, 

borne  by  Somersett,  herald  of  armes. 

Then  Clarentius  Kinge  of  Armes, 
and  a  Gentleman  huisher  goyng  with  him. 


Then 


Was  carryed  by  these 

SIX  GENTLEMEN    IN  CLOAKES  ;    videlizett. 

Francis  Fortescue. 
William  Fortescue. 
Thomas  Stafforde. 
Nycholas  Smythe. 
Nycholas  Hyde. 
Fortescue  Senr-  of  Aywood/ 


14  The  Order  for  the  Buriail 

BANNEROLLS, 

eight, 

borne  by  these  gentlemen,  videlizett, 
William  Fitz  William. 
Mr.  Gryffith,  of  Drugley.* 
Mr.  Robert  Wyngfield. 
Mr.  Bevill. 
Mr.  Lynne. 
Mr.  John  Wyngfield. 
Mr.  John  Spencer. 
Mr.  Fortescue  of  Aywood. 

THE   CANOPIE. 

borne  by  these  four  Knightes,  videlizett, 
Sir  Thomas  Manners.     \ 
Sir  George  Hastinges.     I  F 
Sir  James  Harrington,     j 
Sir  Richard  Knightley.  ) 

THE    BODIE 

assisted  be  these  Four, 
The  Lorde  Mordantt  \ 

The  Lorde  Willoughby  of  Param.  I 
The  Lorde  Compton.  j 

Sir  Thomas  Cycill,  Knight.  ) 

Then, 

GARTER   KINGE   OF   ARMES, 

and  a  Gentleman  huisher  with  him. 

Then, 
THE  CHIEF  MOURNER. 

THE   COUNTIS    OF    BEDFORD. 

Assisted  by  the  Erles  of  Rutland  and  Lyncolne, 

HER   TRAYNE 

borne  by 
The  Ladie  St.  John  of  Basing, 

who  was  assisted  by 
Mr.  John  Manners,  Vize  Chamberlain. 

*  Dingley  ? 


for  Marie  Queen  of  Scotts.  1 5 

T  HE    OTHER   MOURNERS,  VldelizCt, 

Twelve. 

The  Countis  of  Rutland. 
The  Countis  of  Lyncolne. 

The  Ladie  Talbott. 
The  Ladie  Marie  Savill.* 


The  Ladie  Mordantt. 

The  Ladie  St.  John  of  Bletfoe. 

The  Ladie  Manners. 
The  Ladie  Cecill. 

The  Ladie  Montague. 
The  Ladie  Nowell. 

Mistris  Alington. 

A  Scottish  Gentlewoman. 

Then, 
two  of  the 

YEOMEN   OF   THE   GUARDES 

in  clokes. 

SCOTTISH   GENTLEWOMEN, 
Eight, 

too  and  too. 
Then, 

GENTLEWOMEN   OF  COUNTISSES, 

too  and  too 
Then, 

BARONISSIS   AND    LADIES, 

accordinge  to  ther  degree. 


*  She  was  an  Erie's  daughter. 


1 6         The  Order  for  the  Buriallfor  Marie  Queen  of  Scotts. 

Then, 

GENTLEWOMEN. 

Thirty. 

The  Countis  of  Bedforde,  four. 

The  Countis  of  Rutland,  three. 

The  Countis  of  Lyncolne,  three. 

Ladie  St.  John  of  Baznige,  two. 

Ladie  Talbott,  two. 

Ladie  Marie  Savill,  two. 

Ladie  Mordantt,  two. 

Ladie  St.  John  of  Bletneshoe,  two. 

Ladie  Manners,  two. 

Ladie  Cycill,  two. 

Ladie  Montegue,  two. 

Ladie  Nowell,  two. 

Mystris  Alyngton,  two. 

ALL  YEOMEN  IN  COAXES. 

The  Countise  of  Bedforde,  allowed  for  ten  men. 

The  Countis  of  Rutland,  eight  men. 

The  Countis  of  Lincolne,  eight  men. 

The  Ladie  of  St.  John  of  Basing,  five  men. 

All  Baronissis  and  Ladies,  five  apeece. 

All  knightes,  two  men  apeece. 

All  knightes  wyfes  too  apeece. 

All  esquires  one  man  apeece. 


L'ORDRE  DU  CONVOY 
DE   LA    ROYNE   D'ESCOSSE, 

Faict  en  la  ville  de  Peterbourgh 
en  Angleterre,  en  1'Eglise  du 
quel  lieu  son  corps  a  este  enterre', 
le  premier  iour  d'Aoust.  1587, 
et  selon  le  Calendrier  reforme, 
le  dixiesme,  audict  an;  enuiron 
six  moys  apres  sa  mort : — 

MDLXXXVII. 


"  L  'ORDRE  DU  CONVOY"  is  here  given  from  Jebb's  Collection, 
(ii.  655.)  '  De  vita  et  Rebus  gestis  Marise  Scotorum  Reginae, 
Franciae  Dotariae,'  Folio,  London  1725 ;  as  it  illustrates  Sir 
William  DethicKs  "  Order  of  the  Buriall"  in  many  interesting 
particulars.  It  forms  part  of  a  very  curious  Tract,  published  in 
France,  anno  1589,  entitled  "LaMortde  la  Royne  d'Escosse, 
Dovariere  de  France,"  which  Jebb  has  reprinted  at  large. 


%'©rbre  bu  Convoy  be  la  IRo^ne 

bb'JEscosse 
Estott  en  ceste  sorte: 


Premierement,  marchoient  deux  conducteurs,  en  saye  noir. 

Le  Preuost  Baillif.  Le  Baillif  de  Peterbourgh. 

Pauvres  femmes  habillees  en  dueil  blanc,  au  nombre  de  Cent 

marchoient  deuz  a  deux. 

Fourriers  en  maniteaux  de  deuil. 
Jean  Hanipshire.  Jean  Kayes. 

L'Estandar 
porte  par  Sieur  George  Sauil  Cheval. 

Gentilzhommes  en  manteau  de  duet/. 

Six  hommes  de  chambre.     L'homme  du  Doyen  de  Peterbourg. 
Le  filz  de  Maistre  Stafford.     Deux  hommes  du   maistre  de 
Garderobbe.     Maistre  Jacques,  Le  maistre  d'hostel  de  1'Eues- 
que  de  Peterbourgh.     Jacques  Houland.     Edouard  Jarson. 
Richard  Kelifet.         Robert  Creton. 

L'homme  du  Seigneur  Comptoin. 

L'homme  de  Madame  Sainct  Jean  de  Bletso. 

L'homme  du  Seigneur  Willegby  de  Parrhan. 

Deux  hommes  du  Seigneur  et  Dame  Mordaine. 

Deux  hommes  du  Seigneur  et  Dame  Dudley. 


20  UOrdre  du  Convoy 

L'homme  de  Dame   Marie  Sauil.      L'homme   de  Madame 

Talbot. 

Deux  hommes  du  Seigneur  et  Dame  Sainct  Jean  de  Bassing. 
L'homme  de  1'Euesque  de  Peterbourg. 

L'homme  de  1'Euesque  de  Lincoln. 

L'homme  de  la  Comtesse  de  Lincoln. 

Deux  hommes  du  Sieur  de  Rutland. 

Deux  hommes  de  la  Comtesse  de  Rutland. 

Quatre  hommes  de  la  Comtesse  de  Bedford. 

Gentilzhommes  en  robbes  de  deuil. 

Maistre  Worme.     Maistre  Houland.     Le  grand  escuyer. 
Maistre  Fenys.       Maistre  Martin.        Maistre  Wathou. 
Maistre  Dareil. 

Trot's  maistres  d1  hostel. 
Maistre  Cruyse.     Maistre  Alington.    Thomas  Fortescu. 

Les  Serviteurs  de  la  Royne  d>Escosse. 

i.  Monsieur  Bourgoin,  medecin,  en  robbe. 

2.   Monsieur  du  Preau,  aumosnier,  en  long  manteau,  portant  vnc 

croix  d'argent  en  main. 

3.  Pierre  Gorion,  apoticaire,  en  manteau. 

4.  Jacques  Geruais,  chirurgien. 

Valets  de  Chambre. 

5.  Baltasar  Hulli. 

6.  Bastien  Pagets. 
7.  Hannibal  Stouard. 

8.  Didier  Siflard,  sommelier. 

9.  Jean  Lander,  pannetier. 

10.  Martin  Huet,  escuyer  de  cuifine. 

ii.  Nicolas  de  la  Mare,  potagier. 

12.  Robin  Hamilton,  ateux. 

13.  Laurens  de  la  Chappelle,  huissier  de  sale. 

14.  Simon  Jaqui,  valet  de  fourrier. 


de  la  Royne  d'Escosse.  2 1 

En  Robbet. 
Le  chappelin  de  1'Euesque  de  Peterbourg. 

Le  chappelin  de  1'Euesque  de  Lincoln. 

Maistre  Jean  Fortescu,  maistre  de  garderobbe. 

L'Euesque  de  Peterbourg  and  L'Euesque  de  Lincoln,  auec 

leurs  surplis  and  bonnets  quarrez. 

La  Grand  Bannier 

portee  par, 
Seignieur  Andre  Nouuel  Cheualier, 

Le  Controlleur  et  Tresorier, 
Maistre  Andre  Meluin,  maistre  d'hostel  de  la  Royne  d'Escosse, 

Seigneur  Edouard  Montague. 
Le  Seigneur  Chamberland  et  le  Grand  Maistre. 
Monseigneur  Dudley.     Monseigneur  Jean  de  Bassin. 

Deux  tapissiers  en  Manteau,  auec  leurs  bastons  noirs,  en  la  main. 
Les  Escuyers. 

L'hcaume,  Portecoulis.     Le  targe,  Rouge  dragon. 
L'Espee,  Yorke.     La  Cotte  d'armes,  Sommerset. 

Maistre  Clarentieux, 
auec  luy,  vn  gentilhomme  huyssier. 

LA   PRESENTATION, 

portee  par  six  en  manteau 

Francois  Fortescu.     Guillaume  Fortescu.     Thomas  Stafor. 
Nicolas  Smith.     Nicolas  Hyde.     Le  filz  de  Fortescu. 

Huict  banderosseS)  portees  par 

Maistre  Guillaume  Fitzvilliam.  Maistre  Robert  Wingfield. 
Maistre  Lyne.  Maistre  Spencer.  Maistre  Griffen  de  Dingley. 
Maistre  Beuille.  Maistre  Jean  Vigfield.  Maistre  Jean  Fortescu 
de  Lycod. 


22  LOrdre  du  Convoy 

LE   CIEL    DE    VELOURS    NOIR 

porte  sur  la  representation  par 

Seigneur    Thomas     Manner.      Seigneur     Jacques     Harington. 
Seigneur  George  Hastings.     Seigneur  Richard  Knigtly. 

Quatre  assistants  la  representation. 

Le  Seigneur  Mordant.     Le  Seigneur  Willoughby  de  Parrham. 
Le  Seigneur  Compton.     Seigneur  Thomas  Cicille. 

Maistre  Garter, 
auec  luy  vn  Gentilhomme  huisser. 

LE  PRINCIPAL  DUEIL, 

La  Contesse  de  Betford, 
representant  la  Royne  d'Angleterre. 
Deux  soustenans  ladicte  Contesse  sous  les  bras, 
Le  Conte  de  Rutland.  Le  Conte  de  Lincolne. 

Vne  Dame  portans  la  queue. 

Madame   Sainct  Jean  de  Bassing,  soustenue  par  Maistre  Jean 
Maners,  Vice  chamberlant. 

Autres  Dames  en  Dueil. 

La  Contesse  de  Rutland.  Madame  Talbot  la  veufeu. 

Madame  Mordant.  Madame  Manners. 

Madame  Montagu.  Madame  Dudley. 

La  Contesse  de  Lincolne.  Madame  Marie  Sauill. 

Madame  Sainct  Jean  de  Bletso.  Madame  Cecyll. 
Madame  Nauil.  Madamoyselle  Alington. 

Deux  huyssiers  de  la  Royne  d'Angleterre,  en  manteau. 

Lesfemmes  de  la  Royne  d'Escosse. 

Madamoyselle  Barbe  Maubray.    Madamoyselle  Reuce  de  Realay. 
Christine  Sog.  Marie  Pagets. 

M.  Gilles  Maubray  M.  Janne  Kennedy. 

Elspeth  Curie.  Susanne  Korkady. 

Les  femmes  des  Confesses,  Baronesses,  6°  autres  dames,  marchant 

selon  leurs  degrez. 

Quatre  de  la  Contesse  de  Bed-    Trois  de  la  Contesse  de  Rut- 
ford,  land. 


de  la  Royne  d'Escosse. 


Trois  de  la  Contesse  de  Lin-     Deux  de  Madame  S.  Jean  de 


coin. 

Deux  de  Madame  Talbot. 
Deux  de  Madame  Mordant. 


Bassin. 

Deux  de  Madame  Sauill. 
Deux  de  Madame  S.  Jean  de 

Bletso. 

Vne  de  Madame  Cecill. 
Vne  de  Madame  Nauill. 


Vne  de  Madame  Maners. 
Vne  de  Madame  .... 

Vne  de  Madamoyselle  Alington. 

Les  ferviteurs  de  Confesses,  Dames,  Cheualiers,  Barons,  Escuyers, 

marchant  en  deuil,  Selon  leur  degre. 

Dix  de  la  Comtesse  de  Bedford.    Huit  de  la  Comtesse  de  Rutland. 
Huit  de  la  Comtesse  de  Linco-   Cinq  de  la  Comtesse  de  Lincoln. 

lin. 
Cinq  de  chacune  de  leurs  fern-    Cinq  de  chacune  Dame. 

mes. 
Deux  de  chacune  des  Cheuali-   Deux    de    chacune    de    leurs 

ers.  femmes. 

Vne  de  chacune  Escuyer. 


Montague  or  Dudley. 


100 


Eapne  tT 


He  Dnnanrfir,  fiutrtirsinc  tour 
t)'.3oust,  grlon  la  itouurllr 
refortnatton  bt  I'einnet, 


THE  following,  is  taken  from  "  Marty  re  De  Marie  Stvart 
Royne  D'Escosse  et  Dovariere  de  France,"  contained  in  the 
collected  Works  of  Adam  Blackwoood, — Paris,  1644,  p.  703. — 
There  is  a  curious  copy  of  this  Tract,  in  the  Signet  Library,  "  A 
Edimbovrg  chez  Jean  Nafield  1589,"  (printed  ivith  French  types 
and  probably  in  France})  but  the  passage  concerning  Queen  Mary's 
Obsequies,  does  not  appear  in  it.  The  first  Edition  of  this  tract, 
(by  the  same  printer})  is  rather  larger  in  size  than  the  copy  alluded 
to,  and  is  dated  Edin.  1587.  In  the  preface  to  Blackwood's  Works, 
Edition  1644,  it  is  stated,  that  there  are  various  additions  and 
corrections  by  the  author ^  of  which  this  seems  to  be  one. 


LES  MAGNIFIQUES  OBSEQUES 

DE   LA    ROYNE   D'ESCOSSE. 

Stne  Aoust  1587. 


Le  Dimanche  huictiesme  four  d' Aoust  selon  la  nouuelle 
reformation  de  1'annee  mil  cinq  cens  quatrevingt  sept,  fut 
amene  dans  le  chasteau  de  Fodringhaye,  vn  chariot  couuert 
de  velours  noir  auec  les  banderolles  autour  oil  estoient  les 
armes  d'Escosse,  traine  par  quatre  cheuaux  de  mesme  parure. 
Sur  le  soir,  le  roy  de  heraults  estant  arrive'  auec  vingts 
hommes  de  cheval,  tant  gentils-hommes  que  autres  tousen  dueil, 
monta  dans  la  chambre  ou  estoit  le  corps,  lequel  il  fist  mettre 
dans  le  chariot,  auec  vn  grand  respect  et  vn  profond  silence,  et 
fur  les  dix  heurs  du  soir  le  faict  emmener  a  Peterbrouch; 
ou  il  1'accompagna  auec  ceux  qui  estoient  auec  luy  et 
sept  des  officiers  de  la  feue  Royne,  conduits  par  des 
gens  de  pied,  portans  a  leurs  mains  des  torches  alumees.  Sur 
les  deux  heures  apres  minuict,  ils  arriuerent  au  dit  lieu  de 
Peterbrouch)  ou  1'Euesque  en  son  habit  Episcopal  auec  le  Doyen 
et  quelques  Chanoines  vestus  de  surplis  receurent  le  corps  a  Ten- 
tree  de  TEglise,  et  Taccompagnerent  iusqu'au  lieu,  ou  ils  auoient 
prepare  vne  fosse  bastie  de  brique,  tout  al  entour,  au  coste  droit} 
et  a  1'opposite  du  tombeau  de  la  dite  Royne  Catherine,  dans 
laquelle  le  corps  fust  mis,  fans  sonner  ny  chanter,  et  au  mesme 
temps  on  paracheua  ce  bastiment  de  brique  en  forme  de  voute 
et  a  fleur  de  terre,  ou  fuft  laissee  seulement  vne  petite  ouuerture . 


28  Les  Magnifiques  Obscques  de  la 

Le  Mardy  ensuiuant  se  fift  la  ceremonie.     Les  grandes  sales  de 
1'Euesche'  oh  se  fist  1'assemblee  du  conuoy  estoient  tendues  de 
dueil.      Tout  estant  prepare,  commencerent  a  marcher,  premiere- 
ment  le  Preuost  et  le  Baillif  de  Peterbrouch  conducteurs  de 
1'assemblee  en  sayes  noirs,  et  apres  eux  cent  pauures  femmes 
habillees  de  deuil  blanc,    marchans    deux  a  deux,  puis    deux 
Mareschaux   des   logis  en  dueil,  et  en  suite   vn   cheualier   qui 
portoit  1'estendart,  et  apres  quarante  gentilshommes  en  manteaux 
de   dueil,    puis   marchoit   le  grand  Escuyer,   et   en    suite   trois 
maistres  d'Hostel  et  sept  gentils-hommes  tous  en  robes  de  dueil. 
Apres   alloient  les   officiers   et  domestiques  de  la   feue   Royne 
scauoir  son   medcin  en  robe  de  dueil,  son  aumosnier  en  long 
manteau,  portant  vne  croixd'argent ;  et  autres  faisansentout  le  nom- 
bre  de  quatorze.     Et  en  suitte,  alloient  les  Euesques  de  Peterbrouch 
et  de  Lincolne  auecleurs  surpliset  bonnets  quarrez,  leurs  chapelains 
deuant   eux.      Vn    Cheualier   portoit    la   graride    banniere,   et 
apres  marchoient  les  Controlleurs,  Thresoriers  et  maistres  d'hostel 
de  la  feue  Royne,  puis  le  Chambelland  et  le  grand  Maistre,  deux 
tapissiers  en   Manteau,  leurs  bastons  noirs  en  la  main.     Apres 
Marchoient  quatre  Escuyers  portans  le  heaume,  la  targe,  1'espee 
et  la  cotte  d'armes.     Et  en  suite  six  gentils-hommes  portans  les 
banderolles,  et  autres  quatre  gentils-hommes  portans  le  ciel  de 
velours  noir  sur  la  representation,  et  quatre  Milords  assistance  la 
dite  representation.     La  Comtesse  de  Bethford  marchoit  apres, 
representant  la  Royne  d'Angleterre,  soustenue  par  les  Comtes  de 
Rutland,  et  de  Lincolne,  vne  Dame  luy  portant  la  queue,  laquelle 
estoit  soustenue  par  vn    Gentil-homme.     Apres   marchoient  les 
Comtesses  de  Rutland,  et  de  Lincolne,  les  Dames  de  Talbot,  de 
Montague,   Dudeley,   de  SamiHe,    ( Sauille  ? )    Cecile  et  autres 
faisans  le  nombre  de  douze,  toutes  en   deuil,  suiuies  de  deux 
Huissiers  de  la  Royne  d'Angleterre.     Et  en  suitte  alloient  les 
femmes  de  la  feue  Royne  au  nombre  de  huict,  et  par  apres  vingt- 
cincq  femmes,  et  Damoiselles  de  la  suitte  des  Dames  cy-dessus, 
puis  marchoient  en  sayes  de  deuil  48  ou  50  seruiteurs  et  Officiers 
des  Seigneurs  et  Dames  cy-dessus. 


Royne  d1  Escosse. 


29 


Tout  le  dit  conuoy  entre  en  cet  Ordre  dans  le  Choeur  de  la  dit 
Eglisse,  tendue  de  drap  noir,  sem£  des  armes  de  la  feue  Royne. 
Au  milieu  du  Choeur,  estoit  eleve*  vn  dome,  a  la  fagon  de  nos 
chapelles  ardentes,  sans  cierges,  et  couuert  de  velours  noir,  auec 
les  armes  d'Escosse,  et  banderolles.  Sous  ce  dome  fut  mise  la 
representation  de  sa  Maieste,  sur  vne  bierre  couuerte  de  velours 
noir,  et  sur  vn  oreiller  de  velours  cramoisi  estoit  posee  vne 
Couronne.  Les  Choristes  et  Chanoines  se  mirent  aussi-tost 
a  chanter  a  leur  mode,  en  language  Anglois,  et  mesloient  par  fois 
de  la  musique.  Les  Officiers  de  la  feue  Royne,  se  retirent, 
ne  voulans  assister  a  leurs  prieres.  Les  Herauts  a  quelque  temps 
de  la,  et  apres  le  Sermon  fait  par  1'Euesque  de  Lincolne,  les  fut 
inuiter  dans  le  cloistre  oil  ils  estoient  de  venir  a  Poffrande,  ce  quils 
refuserent  de  faire,  disans,  qu'ils  n'offroient  point  a  vn  autel  qu'ils 
n'approuuoient  pas :  on  les  pria  done  d'assister  comme  ils  firent 
aux  ceremonies  Royales,  de  rompre  les  hastens,  de  mettre  les 
enseignes  dans  la  fosse  et  autres.  De  la  tous  ceux  du  conuoy 
furent  traittez  splendidement  dans  les  sales  de  1'Euesche,  les 
seruiteurs  de  la  feue  Royne  en  vne  chambre  a  part,  qui  meslerent 
force  larmes  auec  leur  boire  et  leur  manger. 


A  REMEMBRANCE  OF 
THE  ORDER  AND  MANNER 

OF  THE  BURIALL 
OF  MARY  QUEEN  OF  SCOTTS. 

MDLXXXVII. 


THIS  curious  document  is  preserved  in  the  Archaeologia, 
(i,  155.)  That  part  of  it  which  narrates  the  order  of  the 
procession  has  been  omitted^  as  it  is  very  much  the  same  with 
the  other  accounts.  Where  it  materially  differs  from  these 
is  noted  in  the  Appendix. 


H  IRemembrance  of  tbe  ©rfcer  anfc  banner  of  tbe 
Burial  of  /IDarg  <aueen  of  Scotts. 


On  Sunday,  being  the  3oth  July,  1587,  in  the  29th  year  of  the 
Reign  of  Elizabeth,  the  queens  Majestic  of  England,  there  went 
from  Peterborough,  M.  .  .  .  Dethick,  alias  Garter  principal  King 
of  armes,  and  five  heralds,  accompanied  with  forty  horse  and 
men;  to  conduct  the  body  of  Mary,  late  queen  of  Scots, 
from  Fotheringham  Castle  in  Northamptonshire  to  Peterborough 
aforesaid ;  which  queen  ^remained  prisoner  in  England.  .  .  . 
years ;  having  for  that  purpose,  brought  a  royal  coach,  drawn 
by  four  horses,  and  covered  with  black  velvet,  richly  set  forth 
with  escotcheons  of  the  armes  of  Scotland,  and  little  penons 
round  about  it;  the  body,  being  enclosed  in  lead,  and  the 
same  coffined  in  wood,  was  brought  down  and  reverently  put 
into  the  Coach  ;  at  which  time,  the  heralds  put  on  their  coats  of 
arms,  and  bare-headed,  with  torches  light,  brought  the  same  forth 
of  the  castle,  about  ten  of  the  clock  at  night,  and  so  conveyed  it 
to  Peterborough,  .  .  .  miles  distant  from  Fotheringham 
Castle ;  whither  being  come,  (about  two  of  the  clock,  on  the 
Monday  morning)  the  body,  was  receved  most  reverently,  at  the 
minster  door  of  Peterborough,  by  the  bishop,  dean  and  chapter, 
and  Clarenceux  king  of  armes ;  and,  in  the  presence  of  the  Scots 
which  came  with  the  same,  it  was  laid  in  a  vault  prepared  for  the 


34  A  Remembrance  of  the  Order  of  the  Burial 

same,  in  the  quire  of  the  said  church,  on  the  South  side,  opposite 
to  the  tomb  of  Queen  Katherine,  dowager  of  Spain,  the  first  wife 
of  King  Henry  the  Eighth.  The  occasion,  why  the  body  was 
forthwith  laid  into  the  vault,  and  not  borne  in  the  solemnity,  was, 
because  it  was  so  extreame  heavy,  by  reason  of  the  lead,  that  the 
Gentlemen  could  not  endure  to  have  carried  it  with  leisure,  in  the 
solemn  preceding;  and  besides,  was  feared  that  the  sowder 
might  ripp,  and  being  very  hot  weather,  might  be  found  some 
annoyance. 

On  Tuesday,  being  the  first  of  August,  in  the  morning,  about 
Eight  of  the  clock,  the  chief  mourner,  being  the  Countess  of 
Bedford,  was  attended  upon  by  all  the  lords  and  ladies,  and  brought 
into  the  presence  Chambre,  within  the  bishop's  palace,  which  all 
over,  was  hanged  with  black  cloath;  she  was  by  the  queens 
majesties  gentlemen  ushers,  placed  somewhat  under  a  cloth  of 
estate,  of  purple  velvet ;  where,  having  given  to  the  great  officers, 
their  staves  of  office,  viz.  to  the  lord  steward,  lord  chamberlayne, 
the  treasurer,  and  comptroller,  she  took  her  way  into  the  great 
hall,  where  the  corps  stood ;  and  the  heralds,  having  marshalled 
the  several  companies,  they  made  their  proceedings  as  followeth. 

\It  seems  to  be  unnecessary  to  reinsert  the  order  of  the  Procession 
here  ;  as  it  is  very  much  the  same  with  the  other  accounts. —  Where 
it  materially  differs  from  these^  notice  will  be  taken  in  the  Appendix^ 

The  body,  being  thus  brought  into  the  quire,  was  set  down, 
within  the  Royal  herse,  which  was  20  feet  square,  and  27  feet  in 
height ;  covered  over  with  black  velvet,  and  richly  set,  with  escot- 
cheons  of  armes,  and  fringe  of  gold ;  upon  the  body,  which  was 
covered  with  a  pall  of  black  velvet,  lay  a  purple  velvet  cushion, 
fringed  and  tasseled  with  gold,  and  upon  the  same,  a  close  crown 
of  gold,  set  with  stones :  after  the  body  was  thus  placed,  and 
every  mourner,  according  to  their  degree ;  the  sermon  was  begun 
by  the  Bishop  of  Lincoln  ;  after  which,  certain  anthems  were  sung 
by  the  quire ;  and  the  offering  began  very  solemnly  as  followeth, 


of  Mary \  Queen  of  Scotts.  35 

THE  OFFERING. 

First,  the  chief  mourner  offered  for  the  queen ;  attended  upon, 
by  all  ladyes.      The  coat,  sword,  target,  and  healme,  was 
severally  carried  up  by  the  two    Earls  of    Rutland    and 
Lincoln,  one  after  another  ;  and  received  by  the  bishop  of 
Peterborough,  and  Mr.  Garter  king  at  arms. 
The  standard,  alone. 
The  great  banner,  alone. 
The  lady  chief  mourner,  alone. 
The  trayne-bearer,  alone. 
The  two  carles,  together. 
The  lord  steward,  "| 

The  lord  chamberlaine.  J 

The  bishop  of  Lincolne,  alone. 
The  four  lords  assistants  to  the  body. 
The  treasurer,  comptroller,  and  vice  chamberlaine. 
The  four  knights,  that  bore  the  body. 

In  which  offeringe,  every  course  was  led  up  by  a  herald,  for 
the  more  order ;  after  which,  the  two  bishops  and  the  dean  of 
Peterborough,  came  to  the  vault ;  and  over  the  body,  began  to 
read  the  funeral  service ;  which  being  said,  every  officer  broke 
his  staff,  over  his  head,  and  threw  the  same  into  the  vault,  to  the 
body ;  and  so  every  one  departed,  as  they  came,  after  their  degrees, 
to  the  bishop's  palace ;  where  was  prepared  a  most  royal  feast ; 
and  a  dole  given  unto  the  poore. 


THE 
SOLEMNITY  OF  THE  FVNERALL 

OF 

MARY,  LATE  OF  SCOTTISH,  QUEENE, 
AND  DOWAGER  OF  FRANCE. 

CELEBRATED  IN  THE  CHURCH 
OF  PETERBOROUGH. 

ANNO  DOMINI  MDLXXXVII. 

AUGUSTI     PRIMO. 


THIS  short  Heraldic  Account  of  '  the  Solemnity  of  the  Funeral 
of  Mary,'  was  drawn  up  by  Sir  William  Dethick,  Garter  King 
of  Arms ;  and  is  reprinted  from  the  Bibliotheca  Topographica 
Britannica,  No.  XL. ;  where  it  is  stated  to  have  been  taken  from 
the  Harl.  MS.  1440,  f.  13. 

Two  short  Tracts,  from  the  same  MS.  ate  also  preserved  in  the 
History  and  Antiquities  of  Fotheringay.  They  are  here  inserted 
as  illustrative  of  the  subject  of  the  present  Collection. 


Sbe  Solemnity  of  tbe  3f unerall  of  flDar&  late 

of  Scottish  ©ueene  anb  Dowager  of 

jf  ranee,  celebrates  in  tbe  cburcb 

of  Peterborough,  Hnno  Domini 

1587,  Hugusti  primo, 

FIRST,  The  body  of  the  cathedrall  church,  w.ii  hanged  round 
aboute,  six  or  seven  yards  high  from  the  grounde,  with  two 
breadthes  of  black  bayes,  against  every  second  piller,  garnished 
with  escutiones  of  the  armes  of  the  defunct  alone,  viz.  Or,  a  lyon 
rampant,  within  a  double  tressure,  counterflored  proper ;  and 
with  the  armes  of  both  her  husbands,  impaled  severalely,  with 
the  armes  of  Scotland ;  which  were  these : — first  husband,  B. 
three  flower  de  luces,  Or,  for  France. 

The  second  husband,  eight  coates,  severally ;  four  above,  and 
four  beneath ; — 

The  first)  B.  three  flower  de  luces,  Or,  on  a  bordure,  G.  six 
buckles  torteux,*  the  poynts  of  the  thongs  upwards,  of  the  first 
two,  Or.— 

2.  Or,  a  fess  cheeky,  O.  and  B.  a  bordure,  G. — 

0    o 

3.  a  faltire,  between  400      . — 

o    o 

4.  Or,  a  lyon  rampant,  G. 

5.  B.  a  lyon  rampant,  A,  crowned,  Or. 

6.  A,  5  pyles,  V,  poyntes  in  poynt  of  the  fesse. 

7.  Or,  a  fesse  cheeky,  G,  or.  ^  B  :  over  all  a  bend,  G,  charged 

with  three  buckles,  fermaulx,  the  poynts  upwards  of  the  first. 

8.  A,  a  man's  hart,  G.  on  a  Chief,  B,  3  cinquefoyles,  A ;  over  all, 

a  label  of  3  poynts,  A  :    over  each  escution,  was  set  an 
emperiall  crowne. 

(*  Should  be  fermaulx,  as  in  No.  7.) 


40  The  Funerall  of  Queene  Mary. 

The  quire,  was  hanged  with  broad  bayes,  two  bredthes,  one 
over  another,  garnished  with  escutcions,  as  aforesade. 

The  place  above  the  quire,  was  in  most  solemn  manier,  hanged 
with  four  bredthes  of  black  bayes,  sowed  togeather;  garnished 
at  the  upper  end,  with  escutions  of  mettall,  and  one  each  side,  as 
aforesayde. 

In  the  midst  of  which  place,  neere  unto  the  quire,  four  steps, 
assending,  was  placed  betweene  a  stately  hearse,  with  a  topp,  8 
square,  rising  lik  a  field-bed,  which  was  covered  on  the  topps 
with  black  bayes,  garnished  with  escutions  as  affore,  of  mettall, 
and  besett  with  pinicles  from  the  topp,  on  each  quarter,  most 
butiful  to  behoulde;  whereupon  were  painted,  on  some,  the 
Scottish  armes  alone,  and  on  others  some,  the  armes  of  France 
and  Darnley,  impaled  with  them,  and  St.  Andrewe's  crosse  A,  in 
a  filde,  O ;  and  also  an  unicorne  tripping,  A,  attyred  and  un- 
guled,  Or ;  the  filde  B,  with  a  crowne,  and  a  chayne  turning  over 
his  back,  Or.  On  the  topp  of  the  hearse,  was  set  three  escutions 
of  the  Scotch  armes,  cut  out  in  paste  borde,  guilded,  and  an 
impereall  Crown,  guilded,  and  cut  out  in  past  bord. 

The  vallence  was  black  velvet,  a  yard  and  a  halfe  deepe,  edged 
with  a  fringe  of  golde,  a  quarter  of  a  foote  deepe ;  adorned  with 
fore  compartments,  in  silver,  two  on  each  side,  smale  armes  in 
mettle,  and  buckram  set  betwene,  in  the  compartments.  The 
word,  of  the  armes  of  Scotland,  was  this;  Jn  m£  fcefenCC  <30& 

me  fcefent>. 

Over  the  vallence,  at  evry  corner,  was  set  a  scution  of  armes, 
in  compartiments  wyse,  with  emperial  crownes,  cut  out  in  past- 
bord,  fastned  to  black  staves,  that  bore  out,  each  a  foote  from  the 
hearse,  beset  round  about  the  herse,  immediately  above  the  val- 
lens,  with  pencells  of  silk,  as  above  named,  in  forme  of  stremers. 

The  six  principalles  and  postes,  were  covered  with  black 
velvet ;  and  over  each,  a  compartiment,  with  the  word  or  posy, 
as  aforesayde,  and  a  small  scution  of  buckram,  in  mettall. 


[From  Harl.  MS.  293,  f.   211.] 

THE  1 4th  of  August,  Sir  William  Dethick,  Garter,  knight, 
principal  King  of  Armes,  being  sent  to  Peterburgh  ;  a  rich  pall  of 
velvet,  embroidered  with  the  armes  of  the  mighty  princesse, 
Mary  queene  of  Scotts ;  having  letters,  directed  to  the  reverend 
lord  bishoppe  of  Peterburgh,  in  that  behalfe;  which  pall  of 
velvett,  embroidered,  was  by  him  caryed,  &  laid  uppon  and  over 
the  corps  of  the  said  late  Queene,  assisted  by  many  knights  and 
gentlemen,  and  much  people  at  the  time  of  divine  service ;  and, 
then  the  said  lord  bishoppe  preached  a  sermon  in  that  behalfe, 
in  the  morning,  and  made  a  great  feast  at  dinner,  and  the  Deane 
preached  of  the  same,  in  the  afternoon. 

Then  the  queene  of  Scotland  was  most  royally  and  sumptously 
enterred,  by  the  said  Garter,  on  the  i4th  of  August,  in  the  yere 
1587- 


Hllowance  of  servants  anfc  btacfees,  at  tbe  jf  uneralles 

ot  fl&an?  <aueen  of  Scottes,  at  peterborouab, 

on  Uuesfcas,  tbe  first  of  Hu^ust,  1587. 


[From  Harl.  MS.  1354.  f.  45.] 
THE  Countess  of  Bedford,  beyng  ladie  chief  mourner,  for  her 

surcott  and  mantell,  with  a  long  traynej  16  yeardes, 
Two  gentlemen  in  cloakes,  too  eche  of  them,  three  yeardes  and 

a  halfe, 
Fyve  yeomen. 

Every  other  countesse,  had  twelve  yeardes. 
Lyke  number  of  gentlemen  in  cloaks,  and  yeomen  in  coates. 
Every  baronesse,  had  five  yardes,  two  gentlewomen,  and  five 

yeomen  in  coates. 

Every  knighte's  wyffe,  had  one  gentlewoman,  and  two  yeomen. 
Every  gentlewoman,  had  three  yeardes  and  a  haulf  apeece. 
The  ladyes,  had  Parris  heades  and  barbes. 
The  gentlewomen,  had  whyte  headdes. 
Every  Erie,  had  for  himself  ten  yeardes,  two  gentlemen  in  clokes, 

and  eight  yeomen. 
Every  baron,  had  for  himself  eight  yeardes,  a  gentleman  in  a 

cloake,  and  five  yeomen. 
Every  knight,  had  six  yeardes,  and  two  yeomen. 
Every  esquier,  had  for  himselfe  five  yeardes,  and  one  yeoman. 
Every  gentleman  wearing  a  cloke,  had  for  the  same,  three  yeardes 

and  a  haulfe. 
Garter  and  Clarentaulx,  kings  of  Armes,  had  for  their  blackes, 

either  of  them  six  yeardes. 
Every  herald,  had  for  his  blackes,  five  yeardes. 


THE 

MANNER  OF  THE  SOLEMNITY 

OF   THE 

SCOTISH  QUEEN'S  FUNERAL, 

BRING   THE  FIRST  OF   AUGUST 

MDLXXXVII. 

WHEN   SHE  WAS   BVRIED,    IN   THE 

CATHEDRAL  CHURCH 

OF 

PETERBVRGH. 


*  The  Manner  of  the  Scottish  Queen's  Funeral,'  ts  taken 
from  Gunton's  History  of  the  Cathedral  Church  of  Peter- 
burgh,  Lond.  1686,  (pp.  77,  6^-.)  This  interesting  Tract^ 
appears  to  have  been  transcribed  by  Gunton  from  the  attested 
account ',  drawn  up  by  Dr.  Fletcher,  Dean  of  Peterborough, 
who  was  present  at  the  whole  solemnity  in  his  official 
capacity. 


Gbe  flDanner  of  the  Solemnity  of  tbe  Scotieb 

(Slueen's  funeral,  being  tbe  first  of 

Husust  1587 ;  wben  ebe  was 

buriefc,  in  tbe  (Batbefcral 

dburcb  of  peter* 

burgb. 


Upon  Tuesday,  being  the  first  of  August,  were  the  Funerals 
appointed  to  be  celebrated,  for  the  Scotish  Queen  in  the  Cathedral 
Church  of  Peterburgh  ;  and  accordingly,  there  were  sent  thither, 
from  the  Court,  the  Queen's  household  officers ;  to  make  pre- 
parations for  the  Diet,  Mr.  Dorrel  and  Mr.  Cox ;  for  the  Funeral 
Offices,  Mr.  Fortescue  Master  of  the  great  Wardrobe.  The 
Heralds  came  down,  three  or  four  days  before,  and  appointed 
(together  with  the  Bishop  &  Dean)  the  place,  for  the  body  to  be 
interred ;  which  was  devised,  over  against  the  lying  of  Queen 
Katherine,  near  to  the  tomb  Qtjohn,  last  Abbot  and  first  Bishop 
of  that  Church.  There  was  a  rich  hearse,  erected  above  the  first 
step  of  the  Quire,  near  to  the  place  of  the  burial ;  and  the  whole 
Quire  and  Church  were  hanged  with  black.  Upon  Sunday,  at 
night,  the  thirtieth  of  July,  the  body,  was  brought  by  torch-light 
from  the  Castle  of  Fotheringhay,  (where  it  had  lain,  since  the  time 
of  Execution,  being  the  Eighth  of  February  before)  by  Garter 


46  The  Manner  of  the  Solemnity 

King  at  arms,  and  other  Heralds,  with  some  number  of  Horse, 
in  a  Chariot,  made  of  purpose,  covered  with  black  velvet,  and 
adorned  with  her  Ensigns,  accordingly,  between  one  and  two  of 
the  Clock,  in  the  night ;  where  attended  for  it,  before  the  Church, 
the  Bishop  of  Peterburgh,  and  the  Dean  of  the  Cathedral  Church, 
the  Master  of  the  Ward-robe,  Clarentius  King  at  Arms,  and  divers, 
as  well  of  her  Majesties  servants,  as  other  persons.  There  came 
with  the  body,  six  of  the  Scotish  train ;  as  Melvin,  the  Master  of 
the  household,  and  Physician,  and  others.  The  body 
with  the  closures,  weighed  nine  hundred  weight;  which 
being  carried,  and  attended  orderly,  by  the  said  persons ; 
was  committed  to  the  ground,  in  the  Vault  appointed;  and 
immediately  the  Vault  was  covered,  saving  a  small  hole,  left 
open,  for  the  Staves  to  broken  into.  There  was  at  that 
time,  not  any  offices  of  the  Church-service  done,  the  Bishop 
being  ready  to  have  executed  therein  ;  but  it  was  by  all  that  were 
present,  as  well  Scotish,  as  others,  thought  good,  and  agreed, 
that  it  should  be  done,  at  the  day  and  time  of  solemnity.  Upon 
Monday,  in  the  afternoon,  came  to  Peterburgh,  all  the  Lords  and 
Ladies,  and  other  assistants  appointed;  and  at  the  Bishop's 
palace,  was  prepared  a  great  supper  for  them ;  where  all,  at  one 
table,  supped  in  the  great  chamber,  being  hanged  with  black, 
where  was  a  State  set  on  the  right  side  thereof,  of  purple  Velvet. 
Upon  Tuesday  morning,  the  Chief  Mourners,  Lords  and  Ladies, 
and  other  assistants,  being  ready ;  about  Ten  of  the  Clock,  they 
marched,  from  the  Hall  of  the  Bishop's  palace,  as  folio weth, 
The  Countess  of  Bedford,  Chief  Mourner,  &c. 

(Then  follows  an  abstract  of  the  procession.) 

The  solemnity  being  setled,  the  prebends  and  the  quire,  which 
received  them  at  the  Church  Door,  sung  an  Antheme:  the 
Scotish,  all  saving  Mr.  Melvin,  departed,  and  would  not  tarry  at 
Sermon  or  Ceremonies.  The  Bishop  of  Lincoln  out  of  that  39th 
Psalm,  5.  6.  7  ver.  Lord  let  me  know  mine  end,  &c.  Who  shall 


of  the  Scotish  Queen's  Funeral.  47 

gather  them,  &c. — In  the  Prayer,  when  he  gave  thanks  for  such 
as  were  translated  out  of  this  vale  of  Misery,  he  used  these 
words : — '  Let  us  give  thanks  for  the  happy  dissolution  of  the 
High  and  Mighty  Princess,  Mary  late  Queen  of  Scotland,  and 
Dowager  of  France,  of  whose  life  and  death,  at  this  time,  I  have 
not  much  to  say ;  because  I  was  not  acquainted  with  the  one, 
neither  was  I  present  at  the  other :  I  will  not  enter  into  judgment 
farther ;  but  because  it  hath  been  signified  unto  me,  that  she 
trusted  to  be  saved,  by  the  bloud  of  Christ,  we  must  hope  well  of 
her  salvation :  For  as  Father  Luther  was  wont  to  say,  many  one 
that  liveth  a  Papist,  dieth  a  Protestant?— 

In  the  discourse  of  his  text,  he  only  dealt  with  general 
doctrine,  of  the  vanity  of  all  flesh.  The  Sermon  ended,  the 
offering  of  the  Chief  Mourner  &  hatchments  were  received  by 
the  Bishop  of  Peterburgh,  and  the  offerings  of  the  rest  by  the 
Dean ;  which  ended,  the  Mourners  departed.  The  Ceremony  of 
burial  was  done  by  the  Dean,  the  Officers  breaking  their  staves, 
and  casting  them  into  the  vault  upon  the  coffin.  And  so  they 
departed  to  the  Bishop's  house,  where  was  a  great  feast  appointed 
accordingly.  The  concourse  of  people  was  of  many  thousands  • 
and  after  dinner,  the  Nobles  departed  away,  every  one  towards 
his  own  home.  The  Master  of  the  Wardrobe  paid  to  the  Church, 
for  breaking  of  the  ground  in  the  quire,  and  making  the  grave 
;£io ;  and  for  blacks  for  the  quire  and  Church  £20. 

This  relation  was  attested  in  a  Church  Register,  by  Dean 
Fletcher  himself,  subscribing  his  name  thereunto. 

Shortly  after  this  interment,  there  was  a  table  hanged  up  against 
the  wall ;  which  contained  this  inscription : 

MARIA  SCOTORUM  REGINA,  REGIS  FILIA,  REGIS  GALLORUM  VIDUA, 
REGIN^E  ANGLIC^E  AGNATA,  ET  H^ERES  PROXIMA  :  VERTUTIBUS 
REGIIS,  ET  ANIMO  REGIO  ORNATA,  JURE  REGIO  FRUSTRA  S^EPIUS 
IMPLORATO,  BARBARA,  ET  TYRANNICA  ANGLORUM  CRUDELITATE 
ATQUE  SENTENTIA  ORNAMENTUM  NOSTRI  SECULI,  ET  LUMEN  VERB 
REGIUM  EXTINGUITUR  :  EODEMQUE  NEFARIO  JUDICIO,  ET  MARIA 


48  The  Manner  of  the  Solemnity 


SCOTORUM  REGINA  MORTE  NATURALI,  ET  OMNES  SUPERSTITES 
REGES,  PLEBEII  FACTI,  MORTE  CIVILI  MULCTANTUR.  NOVUM  ET 
INAUDITUM  TUMULI  GENUS,  IN  QUO,  CUM  VIVIS  MORTUI  INCLU- 
DUNTUR,  HIC  EXTAT  I  CUM  SACRIS  ENIM  DIVJE  MARINE  C1NERIBUS, 
OMNIUM  REGUM,  ATQUE  PRINCIPUM  VIOLATAM  ATQUE  PROSTRATAM 
MAJESTATEM  HIC  JACERE  SCITO  :  ET  QUIA  TACITUM  HOC  MONU- 
MENTUM  REGALE  SATIS  SUPERQUE  REGES  SUI  OFFICII  MONET, 
PLURA  NON  ADDO,  VIATOR. 


TRANSLATION. 


1  MARY  QUEEN  OF  SCOTS,  daughter  of  a  King,  widow  of  the 
King  of  France,  Cousin  and  next  heir  to  the  Queen  of  England  ; 
endowed  with  Royal  virtues,  and  a  Royal  mind ;  (the  right  of 
princes  being  oftentimes  in  vain  implored)  by  barbarous  and 
tyrranical  cruelty,  the  ornament  of  our  age  and  truly  Royal  light, 
is  extinguished.  By  the  same  unrighteous  judgement,  both  Mary 
Queen  of  Scots,  with  natural  death,  and  all  surviving  Kings, 
(now  made  common  persons)  are  punished  with  civil  death.  A 
strange  and  unusual  kind  of  monument  this  is,  wherein  the  living 
are  included  with  the  dead  :  for,  with  the  Sacred  ashes  of  this 
blessed  Mary,  know,  that  the  Majesty  of  all  Kings  and  princes, 
lieth  here,  violated  and  prostrated.  And,  because  regal  secresy 
doth  enough  and  more  admonish  Kings  of  their  duty — traveller, 
I  say  no  more.' — 

This  table  continued  not  long ;  but  was  taken  away,  and  cast 
aside ;  by  whose  hand,  or  order,  I  know  not ;  yet  the  royal 
ensigns,  of  an  helmet,  sword  and  scutcheon,  remained  to  the  year 


of  the  Scotish  Queeris  Funeral.  49 

1643,  hanging  high  over  the  place  of  burial ;  yet  did  not  their 
height  secure  them  from  the  storms  which  then  fell  upon  the 
Church  and  Monuments.* 

*  The  '  Helmet  and  Escutcheon  '  were  entire  when  Dugdale  visited  the  spot 
in  1641.  From  on  unpublished  MS.  of  the  latter,  a  fac-simile  drawing  was 
made  for  Bonney's  "  Historic  notices  respecting  Fotheringhay. " — R.  P.  I. 


Declaration 

Of  tf)C 

Charges  of  mitt  anlr 

incumlr  at  tfje  .jFuneral 
of 

Ctueen  of 

eiyentrelr 
ittarmaliufte  Jiarell  anlr  ittrfiarir  €01 


©it  f&ott&ag  t^e  last  of  $ul2,  anlr 
first  of  August,  in  t^e 


THIS  interesting  Account  of  the  Expenditure  by  the  officers 
appointed  by  the  Crown,  at  the  Funeral  of  Queen  Mary,  was, 
for  the  first  time,  noticed  by  George  Chalmers,  Esq.  in  his 
learned  and  able  Vindication,  (2d  Edit.  ii.  203.  8vo.  1822)  as 
extant  in  the  Paper  Office.  The  Editor  and  the  public  are 
indebted  to  him  for  his  kindness,  in  procuring  and  transmitting 
a  Copy  of  the  original  account,  from  which  the  following  is  an 
exact  transcript  The  note  marked  G.  C.  is  by  Mr.  Chalmers. 


accompt 


of  tfce 


at  tije  tfnwvsil  of  JHarg  Oueen  of  £?cotts. 


The  Declaration  of  the  Account  of  Marmaduke  Darell  and 
Richard  Cox,  Gentlemen,  appointed  by  the  Right  Honble  William 
Baron  of  Burghley,  Lord  High  Treasurer  of  England,  to  receive 
sundry  sums  of  money,  for  defraying  the  charge  of  Diet  at  the 
Funerall  of  Lady  Mary,  late  Queen  of  Scotts  :  solemnized  in  the 
Cathedral  Church  of  Peterborough,  the  first  day  of  August  in  the 
2Qth  year  of  the  Reign  of  our  Sovereign  Lady  Queen  Elizabeth ; 
that  is  to  say,  for  provisions  of  Diet,  for  two  Meals,  during  the 
time  of  the  said  Funeral ;  viz.  a  Supper,  on  Monday,  the  last  of 
July  ;  and  a  dinner  on  Tuesday,  the  ist  August  1587. 


54          Accompt  of  the  Expences  incurred  at  the  Funeral. 

The  whole  expences  of  the  Funeral  of  the  Queen  of  Scotts 
amounted  to  1,320  :  14  :  6,  viz. 

Provisions  for  Diet,  in  the  several  offices  of 
Pantry  and  and  Buttery,  .        .       £105  10    6 

*Accatry 54  18    3 

Kitchen,  .        .        .        .  12    9    7^ 

Larder,  ....  7  13    o 

Spicery,  ....  18    6  10^ 

Wood  Yard,    ....  689 

1204    7    o 

Charges  of  Carriage          .        .        .        .  16    6    o 

Extraordinary  Charges,  viz. — 
Extra  Emptions  and  provisions,  6  12    2 

Wages,  ....  382 

Riding  Charges,       ...  90    I     2 

100    i    6 


£320  14    6 


*  In  the  King's  Household,  a  kind  of  check  betwixt  the  Clerks  of  the  Kitchen 
and  the  Purveyors.— G.  C. 

t  So  in  Mr  Chalmers's  Copy.  The  summation  ought  to  have  been  £205  :  7  :  o  ; 
which  makes  the  total  Expenses  amount  to  £311  :  14  :  6. 


515ote0  anti 


NOTES  AND  ILLUSTRATIONS, 


Page  3. 

'  Her  bodie  was  brought  in  a  Coutcb? — Reference  may  here  be 
made  to  "A  Remembrance  of  the  Order,'  &c  (vid.  p.  33,)  where 
the  body  is  said  to  have  been  carried  in  '  a  Royal  Coach,  drawn  by 
four  horses,  and  covered  with  black  velvet,'  &c. 

Ib.  '•Fotheringham  Caste//.' — THE  ESTATE  OF  FOTHERINGHAY,  was 
granted  by  William  the  Conqueror  to  his  niece  Judith,  daughter 
of  Maud,  Dutchess  of  Albemarle,  his  sister  uterine,  and  wife  of 
Waltheof,  (son  of  the  famous  Earl  Siward,)  a  powerful  baron,  who 
was  subsequently  beheaded  for  conspiring  against  the  king. 
Their  daughter  MAUD  inherited  Fotheringhay,  which,  together 
with  the  earldoms  of  Northampton  and  Huntingdon,  the  king 
bestowed  on  Simon  de  St.  Liz,  or  Senliz,  as  a  marriage  portion. 
On  the  death  of  this  nobleman,  Maud  married  DAVID,  king  of 
Scotland,  who,  by  virtue  of  this  marriage,  became  seised  of  the 
manor  of  'FodringeyJ  and  of  the  earldom  of  Huntingdon,  by  grant 
of  Henry  I. — Simon,  Second  Earl  of  Northampton  and  Hunting- 
don, is  supposed  to  have  founded  the  Castle,  shortly  after  he 
built  that  of  Northampton,  in  1084.  After  being  long  in  posses- 
sion of  the  Royal  Family  of  Scotland,  Fotheringhay  reverted  to 
the  Crown  of  England,  (temp.  Edw.  I.)  John  de  Britain,  E.  of 
Richmond,  in  2  Edw.  II.,  obtained  a  grant  from  the  Crown,  of  the 


58  Notes. 

whole  Estate  ;  and  on  the  demise  of  the  celebrated  foundress  of 
Pembroke  Castle,  Cambridge,  Maria*  wife  of  Audemare  de  Valentia, 
Earl  of  Pembroke,  (who  lost  his  life  at  a  tournament,  on  the  day  of 
his  nuptials,t)  Edward  III.  made  a  grant  of  Fotheringhay  to  his 
fifth  son,  Edmund  of  Langley,  Earl  of  Cambridge  and  Duke  of  York  ; 
and  through  him,  the  Castle  became  the  residence  of  the  Royal 
House  of  York,  and  was  the  birthplace  of  Richard  III. — Catherine 
of  Arragon  received  Fotheringhay  in  dowry  from  her  husband, 
Henry  VIII.  ;  and  it  seems  to  have  been  a  favourite  residence  of 
her's.  According  to  Leland,t  she  'did  great  costs  in  late  tyme  of 
refresching  of  it.' 

The  Castle  of  Fotheringhay,  was  first  made  use  of,  as  a  STATE 
PRISON,  2  Jth  May,  1554,  when  Edward  Courtney,  Earl  of  Devon- 
shire, was  removed  to  it  from  the  Tower  of  London.  The 
unfortunate  MARY  was  the  next  and  last  state  prisoner  (25th 
Sept.  1586);  having  been  there  closely  confined  during  the  last 
six  months  of  her  singularly  chequered  life,  under  the  custody  of 
Sir  William  Fitzwilliam  of  Milton. 

*  Her  own  son  (James  I.)  who  wore  her  crown   in  her  lifetime, 
accepted  the  unjust  fine  inflicted    on    poor  Davidson,  as  a  full 
satisfaction  ;  took  the  son  of  Cecil,  her  warmest  enemy,  into  his 
favour,  when  he  came  to  the  throne  of  England  ;  and  beat  down  the 
Castle,  in  a  Jit  of  revenge.     It   was   so   completely  demolished,  that 
only  the  earth-works  remain  ;  and  the  keep  shows  the  fetter-lock 
form,  round  on    the  west,  and  flat  at   the  east  end.     Within  the 
first  works,  is  a  farm-house,  with  some  carved  stones,  wrought  into 
it  ;   and  at   the   south  west  corner  of  the   inner    trench,  are  some 
masses  of  stone  walls.     Sir  Robert  Cotton    carried  the  wainscott 
of  the  wall  to  Connington.' — Archtxologia,jiv.  221, —  and   GougKs 
Camden,  ii.  181. 

*  Maria  de  St.  Paul,  Baroness  de  Voissie  and  Montana!,  was  daughter  of  Guido  de 
Chattllon,  Comte  de  St.  Paul  in  France,  by  Mary,  daughter  of  John  de  B  Ita'm,  Earl 
of  Richmond,  nefheiu  of  Edward  I.     She  also  founded  Denny  Abbey,  near  Ely. 

•j- '  Sad  Chatillon,  on  her  bridal  morn 
That  wept  her  bleeding  love.' 

GRAY. 
%  Leland,  Ttin.  vol.  i.  fol.  4,  6. 


Notes.  59 


'The  ground  on  which  it  stood,  with  the  surrounding  moats,* 
and  small  fragments  of  the  walls,  near  the  river,  and  on  the  east 
of  the  mount,  are  the  only  marks  of  this  once  strong  and  memor- 
able Castle.' — Historic  Notices  in  reference  to  Fotheringhay,  Oudle, 
8vo.  1821. 

Ib.  *  The  Hearse? — The  hearse,  was  usually  *  a  four-square  frame 
of  timber,  which  was  hung  with  black  cloth,  and  garnished  with 
flags  and  scutcheons,  as  also  a  great  quantity  of  lights,  according 
to  the  wealth  and  quality  of  the  person  deceased.'  The  following 
dimensions  for  a  hearse  are  taken  from  a  MS.  in  the  Harleian 
Library  :  '  Each  side  was  twelve  foot  broad,  and  each  corner  post 
twelve  foot  high  ;  from  each  of  these  posts,  arose  a  rafter,  slanting ; 
and  all  four  rafters  met  at  the  top,  and  morticed  in  an  upright 
post  in  the  middle,  which  rise  about  four  foot  above  the  corner 
posts.' — Strut? s  Manners  of  England,  iii.  159. 

In  a  very  interesting  tract,  preserved  in  Lord  Somers's  Collec" 
tion,  (ii.  225.)  lThe  Life  and  Death  of  our  late  most  incomparable  and 
Heroique  Prince  Henry,  Prince  of  Wales.  A  Prince  (for  Valour  and 
Virtue)  jit  to  be  initiated  in  succeeding  Times?  1641.  Written  by  Sir 
Charles  Cornwallis,  Knight,  Treasurer  of  his  Highness's  House- 
hold, the  following  occurs  : — *  The  coffin  was  set  under  a  great 
stately  herse,  built  quadranglewise,  with  eight  pillars,  shewing  three 
to  the  view,  on  each  side  four  square  canopy  like,  rising  small  on 
the  top,  trimmed  and  set  thick  within  and  without,  with  divers 
scutchions,  small  flagges,  and  pensils  of  his  highness's  several  armes 
of  the  union  chained,  Scotland,  Wales,  Cornewall,  Chester, 
Rothsay,  Carrick,  &c.,  mingled  here  and  there,  with  his  highnesses 
motto,  Fax  mentis  honest  a  gloria;  and  that  of  the  funeral  herse, 
Juvat  ire  per  ahum? — Somer's  Tracts.  (Sir  Walter  Scotfs  edit.) 
ii.  247. 

Antiently,    these    Hearses  remained  over  the  grave,  with  wax 

*The  outer  moat,  on  the  north  side,  before  the  earth  was  thrown  into  it  in  1820, 
was  seventy -five  feet  across ;  and  the  inner  moat,  at  the  foot  of  the  mount,  sixty-six 
feet. 


60  Notes. 

lights  bnrning,  in  the  chapel  or  vault  where  the  deceased  was 
interred  ;  and  masses  were  said  and  sung  at  appointed  times. — 
vid.  Strutt,  Go  ugh,  &c. 


Page    4. 

' Being  set  in  order  in  the  by  the  heralds*  &e. — There  is  here,  an 
evident  omission,  in  the  original  tract.  The  following  passage, 
immediately  preceding  the  form  of  the  procession,  in  'A  Remem- 
brance of  the  order,'  &c.,  shews,  that  the  marshalling  ol  the 
procession,  took  place,  in  '  the  Great  Hall?  '  She  (the  Countess  of 
Bedford)  took  her  way  into  the  great  hall,  where  the  corps  stood,  and 
the  heralds  having  marshalled  the  several  companies,  they  made  their  pro- 
ceedings, as  follow eth. — vid.  p.  34. 

Ib.   'Sir  Nicholas  SauellJ—Sir  George  Saville,  knight. 


Fage  4. 

'  Then  the  Deane? — Dr.  Richard  Fletcher,  Dean  of  Peterborough, 
was  made  Chaplain  to  Queen  Elizabeth,  1581  ;  Dean,  1583  ; 
Bishop  of  Bristol,  1589.  Translated  to  Worcester,  1592,  and  to 
London,  1594.  He  was  father  of  the  celebrated  dramatic  poet, 
JOHN  FLETCHER,  who  was  his  eldest  son  by  his  first  marriage. 
Having  offended  Elizabeth,  by  marrying  the  widow  of  Sir  John 
Baker  of  Sisingsherst,  he  was  forbid  the  court  for  a  year  ;  and 
suspended  from  his  Episcopal  functions  for  six  months.  He 
never  recovered  this  disgrace  ;  but  died  a  very  short  time  after- 
wards, as  was  supposed,  of  grief. 


Notes.  6 1 

Page  5. 

*  The  Sword  by  Torke.' — This  herald  is  unaccountably  omitted, 
in  Garter's  notice  of  the  procession.  He  was  Humphry  Hales, 
Esq.  created  Tork  herald,  by  Robert,  Earl  of"  Leicester,  4th  June, 
1587;  died  i6th  June,  1591.  Arms,  Gules,  three  arrows,  Or. 
feathered  and  bearded,  Argent.  He  was  succeeded  by  Ralph 
Brooke,  Esq. — vid.  Noble,  Dallaway,  &c. 


Page  7. 

*  Brakenburie? — From  '  A  Remembrance  of  the  order,'  &c.  it 
would  appear  that  this  person  was  Gentleman  Usher  to  Garter 
King  at  Arms  ;  as  in  the  procession,  '  Mr.  Garter,  with  the  usher 
Mr.  Brakenbury*  are  marshalled  together. 


II. 


'  Poore  men.' — All  the  accounts,  excepting  this  one,  agree  in 
stating  these,  as  100  ' poore  women'  * pauures  femmesj  ' poore  old 
women,  for  the  most  part  widowes,  in  black  cloth  gownes,  with  an  ell 
of  white  Holland  ouer  their  heads,'  &c. 

Ib.  '  Sir  George  Saville,  Knight? — He  was  created  a  Bart,  by 
James  I.  In  the  first  tract  he  is,  by  mistake,  called  Sir  Nicholas. 
— vid.  p.  4. 


62  Notes. 

Ib.  *  Gentlemen  in  cloakes? — In  the  tract,  *  A  Remembrance]  &c. 
they  are  thus  mentioned;  'Gentlemen  in  clokes  to  the  number 
of  50,  being  attendants  on  the  lords  and  ladies.' 

Ib.   *  Syxe   Groomed — In   the   same   tract,   '  Six   grooms  of  the 

chamber,    viz.    Mr.    -       -    Eaton,    Mr. Bykie,    Mr.    — 

Ceavaval,   Mr. Flynt,  Mr.  Charlton,    Mr. Lyllc.' 

They  are  not  named  in  the  French  account. — p.  19. 


Page  II. 

'•I  he  Bishop  of  Peterborough's  Stewarde* — *  Maistrc  Jacques.' 


Page  12. 

'  Mr.  Horseman? — '  Le  grand  escuyer,'  in  the  French  accounts. 

Ib.  ' '  *  Mr.  Martin,'  '  Maistre  Martin,'  according  to 

two  of  the  other  accounts. 

Ib.  'Scottes  in  cloakes? — Fourteen  servants  of  the  Queen  of  Scots, 
are  named  in  the  French  copy ;  but  according  to  'A  Remembrance,' 
&c.  they  are  stated  to  be  '  17  in  number.'  The  other  three,  were 
Cruyse,  Aligton,  and  Fortescue,  '  maistres  a* hostel? — vid.  p.  20. 

Ib.  '•A  Scottish  Priest.1 — This  person  is  said  to  have  been  a 
French  Jesuit,  (perhaps  Monsieur  de  Preau,  Mary's  Almoner  and 
Confessor).  He  openly  wore  a  gold  cross,  pendant  at  his  breast, 
and  also  carried  one  of  silver  in  his  hand,  during  the  procession  ; 


Notes.  63 

which  gave  great  offence  to  the  populace. — The  office  of  Almoner 
to  the  Queen  was  also  enjoyed,  during  part  of  her  imprisonment, 
by  Archibald  Crawford  and  Peter  Rorie. 

Ib.  '•Peterborough] — Richard  Rowland,  D.D.  was  successively 
master  of  Magdalene's  and  St.  John's  Colleges,  Cambridge. — In 
1534,  he  obtained  the  bishoprick  of  Peterborough  on  the  promotion 
of  Bishop  Edmund  Scrambler,  D.D.  to  the  See  of  Norwich. 
Bishop  Rowland,  presided  over  this  Diocese,  for  16  years. — He 
died  at  Castor,  anno  1600,  and  was  interred  in  the  East  End  of  the 
Cathedral. — G union's  Pettrb.  p.  81. 

Ib.  lLincolne? — William  Wickham,  Dean  of  Lincoln,  succeeded 
Bishop  Cooper,  on  6th  December  1854.  He  was  afterwards 
translated  to  the  See  of  Winchester,  (on  the  demise  of  Bishop 
Cooper,  who  had  also  been  promoted  to  that  Bishoprick  from 
Lincoln)  22d  Feb.  1549;  but  died  I  ith  June  following,  before 
having  taken  formal  possession.  He  was  buried  in  the  Church  of 
St.  Mary  Overy,  Southwark. 

Ib.  *  Sir  Andrew  NoweR* — of  Ridlington,  Co.  Rutland.  He 
'  was  a  person  of  great  note,  in  the  reign  of  Elizabeth  ;  living  in 
that  state  of  magnificence,  as  to  equalize  the  barons  of  greater 
worth.'  Banks,  iii.  140. — 'For  person,  parentage,  grace,  gesture, 
valour,  and  many  other  excellent  parts,  (amongst  which  skill  in 
music,)  was  one  of  the  first  rank  in  the  court.' — Fuller's  Worthies. 

Ib.  '  Sir  Edw.  Montague* — of  Hemyngton,  Co.  Northampton, 
knight,  (1567,)  one  of  the  ancestors  of  Montagu,  Duke  of  Man- 
chester, was  eldest  son  of  Sir  E.  Montagu,  Chief  Justice  of  the 
Common  Pleas. — Died  at  Boughton,  26th  Jan.  1601-2,  and  was 
interred  in  Weekly  Church,  Northamptonshire  ;  where  there  is 
an  Altar-tomb,  with  two  effigies,  of  himself  and  his  Lady. — Sir  E. 
B.'s  Collins,  ii.  48.  &c. 

Page  12. 

*  The  Lord  C ham berlayne J — Edward  Sutton,  Lord  Dudley.  Dugd. 
Ear.  ii.  217.  He  married  Theodosia,  daughter  of  Sir  James 
Harrington,  Knight.— Died,  1643. — Banks,  ii.  173. 


64  Notes. 

Ib.  '  The  Lord  Stewarde.' — William  Pawlett,  Lord  St.  John  or 
Basing,  eldest  son  of  William,  third  Marquis  of  Winchester ;  suc- 
ceeded to  that  title  on  the  death  of  his  father  in  1598.  He 
involved  himself  in  pecuniary  embarrasments  by  entertaining 
Queen  Elizabeth  most  splendidly,  at  Basing,  in  one  of  her  pro- 
gresses.— Lodge's  Illust.  \\\.  151. — Sir  E.  Bridgets  Mem.  of  K.  Jame?s 
Peers,  309. — Sir  E.  B?s  Collins,  ii.  375. 

Ib.  c ,  pourcyvant  of  arms? — Sir  William  Segar,  Knight, 

(then  W.  Segar,  Gent.)  Portcullis  Pursuivant,  was  appointed  to  this 
office,  at  Derby-house,  by  George,  Earl  of  Shrewsbury,  loth  June, 
1585,  (patent  i^th  June  following).  He  afterwards  successively 
enjoyed  the  appointments  of  Somerset  Herald,  1588  ;  Norroy,  1593  ; 
and  Garter,  1603  ;  in  which  last  mentioned  year,  he  went  with 
the  Order  of  the  Garter,  to  Christian  IV.  of  Denmark.  En  1612, 
he  invested  Maurice,  Prince  of  Orange,  with  the  insignia  of  the 
Garter  ;  and  was  presented  with  a  chain  of  gold,  six  pounds  in 
weight,  with  the  miniature  of  the  prince,  set  in  diamonds.  James  I. 
conferred  the  honour  of  knighthood  on  him,  in  Nov.  1616.  He 
died,  I3th  Dec.  1633.  Arms,  first  and  fourth,  Azure,  a  cross- 
moline,  Ar.  for  Segar  ;  and  second  and  third,  a  Chevron,  between 
three  mullets,  Azure,  for  Crakenthorp. — Vide  Anstis,  Noble, 
Dallaway,  &c. 

*  The  Sword  by  Ycrke,'  (p.  5.) — This  has  been  omitted  in  Garter's 

account. 

Ib.  *  Rouge  Dragon.' — John  Raven,  Gent,  was  created  Rouge 
Dragon,  pursuivant,  8th  June,  1583.  He  was  son  of  John  Raven  of 
Creating,  Co.  Suffolk;  and,  according  to  Noble,  was 'an  officer 
at  arms  of  great  skill,  and  was  much  employed  by  Camden,  as  his 
deputy  marshal,  in  visitations.'  He  afterwards  enjoyed  the  office 
of  Richmond  Herald,  23d  October,  1597.— Died,  I3th  February, 
1615.  Arms,  Or.  a  raven  proper,  placed  on  an  orb,  Gules. — See 

Noble,  &c. 

Ib.  'Somerset? — Robert  Glover,  Esq.  of  Ashford  in  Co.  Kent, 
was  appointed  Somerset  Herald,  1571.  Elizabeth,  in  consequence 


Notes.  65 

of  his  great  skill  and  unwearied  attention,  permitted  him  to  visit 
foreign  countries,  for  his  improvement.  He  was  allowed  by 
heralds,  to  be  one  of  the  greatest  ornaments  to  the  College  of 
Arms.  Amongst  others  of  his  performances,  it  may  be  noticed,  that 
he  was  the  author  of  *  Titles  of  Honour,'  afterwards  published  by 
his  nephew,  Thomas  Milles.  He  also  answered  the  Bishop  of 
Ross's  book,  as  to  Queen  Mary's  claim  to  the  English  crown  ;  and 
is  known  to  have  materially  assisted  Cambden,  in  the  pedigrees, 
for  his  '  Britannia.'  He  married  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  William 
Flower,  Esq.  Norroy. — Died  in  London,  April  1588,  aged  45,  and 
was  succeeded  by  Sir  W.  Segar,  (afterwards  Norroy  and  Garter.) 
— Arms,  Sable,  a  chevron  Ermine,  between  three  crescents, 
Argent. — See  Noble,  Dallaway,  &c. 

Ib.  *  Clarentius.' — Robert  Cooke,  Esq.  Clarenceux  King  of  Arms, 
succeeded  William  Harvey,  who  died  22d  Feb.  1566-7.  He  was, 
successively,  Rose  pursuivant,  Chester,  Norroy  and  Clarenceux;  to 
which  last,  he  was  appointed  1567. — Died  and  was  buried,  at 
Hanworth,  Co.  Middlesex,  1592. — Arms  of  Gules,  seme'  of  fleurs- 
de-lis,  a  cinquefoil,  Ermine. — Vide  Noble  and  Dallaway,  &c. 

Ib.  *  A  gentleman  timber? — *  Mr.  Conyngsbye.' 

Ib.  *  The  body' — It  would  appear,  from  one  of  the  tracts,  ('A 
Remembrance;  &c.)  that  the  body  lwas  not  borne  in  the  solemnity, 
because  it  was  so  extreame  heavy,  by  reason  of  the  /ead,'  &c. — According 
to  Gunton,  and  other  authorities,  *  the  body,  with  its  closures,  weighed 
nine  hnndrea  weight! — GUNTON'S  Peterborough. 

Ib.  l  Banner  oils? — In  'A  Remembrance,'  &c.  they  are  thus 
enumerated  : — 

Eight  BANNEROLLES  borne  by  Esquires. 

1.  King    Robert,    impaling    Drummond,    by    Mr.   Wm.    Fitz- 
williams. 

2.  King   James    the     ist,    impaling    Beaufort,    Mr  Griffin   of 
Dingley. 

3.  Guelders,  by  Mr.  R.  Wingfield. 

4.  King  James  3d,  impaling  Denmark,  Mr.  Bevil. 


66  Notes. 

5.  King  James  4th,  impaling  the  arms  of  Henry  yth  of  England, 
Mr  Lynne. 

6.  King  James  5th,  impaling  Guys,  Mr.  John  Wingfield. 

7.  King   of  France,    impaling    the    arms  of  Mary,  Queen  of 
Scotland,  Mr  Spence. 

8.  Lord  Darnley,  impaling  the  arms  of  Mary  Queen  of  Scot- 
land, Mr  Jonn  Eortescue  of  Ay  wood. 


Pages  14.  and  22. 

*  THE  CANOPIE,  born  by  these  pur  knights'  &c. — *  Le  Ciel  de  velours 
noirt  port'e  sur  la  Representation?  &c. — It  seems  to  have  been  cus- 
tomary, at  the  Funerals  of  Royal  personages,  to  carry  in  the 
funeral  procession  an  Image,  or  REPRESENTATION  (as  it  was  termed), 
of  the  deceased.  This  Representation,  was  usually  placed  on 
velvet  cushions,  in  an  open  Chariot,  garnished  with  banners 
pencells,  escutchions,  &c.;  appareled  with  robes  of  State,  having 
the  Crown  on  the  head,  and  the  ball  and  sceptre  in  the  hands, 
&c. — See  Gough's  Sepulchral  Monuments. — Strutfs  Manners  of  England, 
&c. — Over  the  Chariot,  which  frequently  contained  THE  BODY 
also,  there  was  usually  carried  a  CANOPY  of  State,  which  was 
surrounded  with  eight,  ten,  or  twelve  Bannerols,  carried  by  as 
many  Knights  or  Gentlemen  ;  Four  or  Six  Noblemen,  termed, 
Assistants  to  the  Body,  bore  up  the  pall. 

In  a  curious  Tract,  preserved  in  Lord  Somer's  Collection, — 
'  Order  and  proceedings  at  the  Funerall  of  the  Right  High  and  Mighty 
princesse,  Elizabeth,  Queen  'of  England,  France  and  Ireland,  from  the 
pallace  af  Westminster,  called  White-hall:  To  the  Cathedral  Church  of 
Westminster  the  ^%th  of  April  1603.'  (by  Henry  Chettle,)  there 
occurs,  in  the  description  of  the  procession,  *  The  lively  picture  of 


Notes.  67 

her  Highnesse  whole  body,  crowned  in  her  parliament  robes, 
lying  on  the  Corps  balmed  and  leaded,  covered  with  velvet,  borne 
on  a  chariot,  drawn  by  four  horses  trapt  in  black  velvet. — About  it,  six 
banner  rolls,  on  each  side,  gentlemen  pentioners,  with  their  axes 
downward.  With  them  the  Footmen.  A  Canopy  borne  over  the 
Chariot,  by  four  Noblemen.' — Sower's  Tracts  (Sir  Waltea  Scotfs 
Edit.}  i.  250. 

In  the  same  valuable  collection,  there  is  another  Tract,  which 
is  also  worthy  of  being  noticed,  as  illustrative  of  these  circum- 
stances, — "  The  Funerals  of  the  High  and  Mighty  Prince,  Henry 
Prince  of  Wales,  Duke  of  Cornwaile  and  Rothsay,  Count  Palatine 
of  Chester,  Earl  of  Caricke,  and  late  Knight  of  the  most  noble 
Order  of  the  Garter.  Which  Noble  Prince,  deceased  at  St. 
James's,  the  sixt  day  of  November,  1612,  and  was  Princely 
interred,  the  seventh  day  of  December  following,  within  the  Abbey 
of  Westminster,  in  the  eighteenth  year  of  his  age.  London, 
Printed  by  T.  S.  for  John  Budgde,  1613  ;"  which  contains  the 
following  : — '  Monday  the  yth  of  December,  (the  funerall  day,) 
the  Representation,  was  layd  upon  the  corps,  and  both  together,  put 
into  an  open  chariot. — Ibid.  ii.  211. 

And  afterwards,  in  describing  the  procession  : — 'The  Corps  of 
the  Prince,  lying  in  an  open  Chariot,  with  the  Prince's  Represen- 
tation, invested  with  his  robes  of  estate,  of  purple  velvet,  furred 
with  ermines,  his  Highnesse  Cap  and  Coronet  on  his  head,  and 
his  Rod  of  Gold  in  his  hand  ;  and  at  his  feet,  within  the  said 
Chariot,  sat  Sir  David  Murrey,  the  Master  of  the  Wardrobe. 
The  Chariot,  was  covered  with  blacke  velvet,  set  with  plumes  of 
blacke  feathers,  and  drawn  by  sixe  horses  covered,  and  armed 
with  scuchions,  having  their  chieffrons  and  plumes.  A  Canopy 
of  blacke  velvet,  born  over  the  representation,  by  sixe  Baronets. 
Ten  Bannerols,  born  about  the  body,  by  ten  Baronets.  Four 
assistants  to  the  Corps,  that  bore  up  the  corners  of  the  pall.' — 
Ibid.  215  &  216. — After  the  ceremonial  was  over,  'The  Coffin, 
with  the  Representation  (as  is  before  said)  remaining  still  under  the 


68  Notes. 

hearse,  to  be  seene  of  all,  untill  the  ipth  of  the  said  month  of 
December;  when,  decked  and  trimmed  with  cloathes,  as  he  went 
when  he  was  alive  ;  robes,  collar,  crowne,  golden  rodde  in  his 
hand,  &c.;  it  was  set  up,  in  a  chamber  of  the  said  Chapell,  at 
Westminster,  amongst  the  Representations  of  the  kings  and 
queenes,  his  famous  predecessors  ;  where  it  remaineth  for  ever  to 
be  seene.' — Life  and  Death  of  Prince  Henry. — Ibid.  ii.  248. — In 
Westminster  Abbey,  several  of  these  Representations,  or  waxen 
figures,  are  still  preserved. 

It  may  here  be  noticed,  that  at  the  Funeral  of  QUEEN  ELIZABETH, 
the  'Lady  Marchionesse  of  Northampton,  assisted  by  the  lord- 
treasurer,  and  lord-admiral,  was  Chief  Mourner;  her  traine,  sup- 
ported by  master  vice-chamberlaine.' — (Sir  W.  Scoffs)  Somers 

Tracts,  i.  250. 

At   the  Funeral  of  PRINCE  HENRY,  '  Prince  Charles  was  Chief 

Mourner,  supported  by   the   Lorde  Privy  Scale,  and  the  Duke  of 

Lenox. — His  Highnesse  train,  was  borne  by  the  Lord  Dawbney, 

brother  to  the  Duke  of  Lenox.' — Ib.  ii.  216. 


Page  14. 

'  Sir  Thomas  Manners! — Knight,  fourth  son  of  Thomas,  first  Earl 
of  Rutland. — Died  in  June  1591,  and  was  buried  at  St.  Leonard's 
Shoreditch,  London. — Sir  E.  B's  Collins,  i.  469. 

Ib.  '  Sir  George  Hastings? — Second  son  of  Francis,  second  Earl 
of  Huntingnon  ;  to  which  title  he  afterwards  succeeded,  on  the 
death  of  his  elder  brother,  Henry,  third  E.  Huntingdon  ;  who  had 
charge  of  Queen  Mary.  He  married  Dorothy,  (Eleanor  according 
to  Milles,)  daughter  of  Sir  John  Port  of  Etwall,  Co.  Derby,  Knight. 
Died  1604.— Dugd.  ii.  588.— Banks,  iii.  399. 


Notes.  69 

Id.  'Sir  James  Haryngton? — Of  Exton,  Co.  Rutland.  Married 
Lucy,  daughter  of  Sir  W.  Sidney,  Kt.  His  son,  Sir  John,  was,  in 
1603,  on  the  ascension  of  K.  James,  created  Lord  Harington  of 
Exton,  and  had  the  tuition  of  the  Lady  Elizabeth,  (daughter  of 
King  James,)  until  her  marriage,  with  Fred.  Count  Palatine. — 
Sir  E.  B's  Collins,  ix.  479. — Died  1591,  and  was  buried  in  Exton 
church. — Wright's  Rutland,  p.  55,  56. 

Ib.  *  Sir  Richard  Knightly' — Of  Fawsley,  Co.  Northampton, 
which  county,  he  frequently  represented,  in  Parliament,  temp. 
Eliz.  He  was  a  great  favourer  of  the  Puritans,  whose  libels  were 
published  at  his  expense  ;  for  which  he  was  cited,  in  the  Star 
Chamber,  and  severely  fined  and  censured  ;  but  he  was  dis- 
charged, and  his  fine  remitted,  on  the  intercession  of  Archbishop 
Whitgift. — He  married,  1st,  Mary,  daughter  of  Richard  Farmer, 
Esq.  of  Easton  Neston  ;  zd,  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Edward  Duke 
of  Somerset  ;  and  3d,  Jane,  daughter  of  Sir  John  Spencer,  knight. 
— Died,  1615-16.  There  is  an  Altar  Tomb,  in  the  Parish  Church 
of  Fawsley,  in  memory  of  Sir  Richard  and  his  last  wife,  Jane  ; 
with  sculptured  figures,  in  alabaster,  in  recumbent  postures.  He 
is  represented,  in  armour,  over  which  is  thrown  an  herald's 
mantle,  the  thighs  are  in  mail. — Another  monument,  with  similar 
figures,  also  in  alabaster,  is  still  preserved  in  the  Chancel  of 
Upton  Church. — Brittorfs  Beauties  of  England  and  Wales,  (Northamp- 
tonshire?) — Bridge's  Northamptonshire,  i.  65. — Sir  E.  B's  Collins,  &c. 

Ib.  *  The  Lord  Mordaunt? — Lewis  Mordaunt,  third  Lord  Mor- 
daunt  ;  was  one  of  the  peers,  who  sat  in  judgment,  on  Thomas, 
Duke  of  Norfolk,  19  Eliz.;  and,  in  29  of  the  same  reign,  also  sat 
on  Queen  Mary's  trial. — Died  1601. — Dugd.  ii.  360. — Sir  E.  B.'s 
Collins,  iii.  316. 

Ib.  'The  Lord  Willoughby  of  Par  am.'— Charles,  second  Lord  W. 
of  Parham  ;  married  Margaret,  daughter  of  Edward,  and  sister  of 
Henry,  Earl  of  Lincoln. — Died  1603. — Dugd.  ii.  88 — and  Banks, 
iii.  744. 

Ib.  '  The  Lorde  Compton.' — Henry,  L.  Compton,  father  of  William, 


70  Notes. 

first  E.  of  Northampton,  was  one  of  the  Peers  for  Queen  Mary's 
trial. — Died  1590. — Sir  E.  B.'s  Collins,  iii.  233. — Dugd.  ii.  403. 

Ib.  'Sir  Thomas  Cycill,  Knight'— Eldest  son  of  William,  first 
Lord  Burleigh,  Lord  High  Treasurer,  the  most  active  of  Q. 
Mary's  persecutors,  by  his  first  wife,  Mary,  daughter  of  Peter 
Cheek,  Esq.  On  the  death  of  his  father,  (4th  Aug.  1598,)  he 
succeeded  to  the  title  of  Burleigh,  and,  on  the  29th  Augnst,  was 
chief  mourner  at  his  splendid  state  funeral,  (as  an  Ear/)  by  the 
express  orders  of  Q.  Elizabeth. — In  consequence  of  his  great 
merits  and  services,  he  was  created  Earl  of  Exeter,  4th  May,  1605, 
shortly  after  the  ascension  of  James  T. —  He  died,  at  the  advanced 
age  of  80,  on  yth  Feb.  1622  ;  and  was  buried  at  St.  Peter's, 
Westminster,  (in  the  chapel  of  John  the  Baptist.) — Sir  E.  Eyi 
Collins,  ii.  599. — Dugd.  ii.  p.  406. 

Ib.  '  Garter  Kinge  of  Armes,  and  a  Gentleman  Usher  with  him! — Sir 
William  Dethick,  second  son  of  Sir  Gilbert  Dethick,  Garter.  He 
obtained  his  patent,  1586.  Resigned,  on  a  pension  of  200*.  per 
annum,  in  1606,  and  died  the  same  year. — Antis  Reg.  of  the  Garter, 
\.  386-9. — Vid.  also  Noble's  College  of  Arms,  fa?  his  life. — His 
Gentleman  Usher,  was  Mr.  Brakenbury.  Vid.  note  to  p.  7. 

Ib.  '  The  Chief  Mourner! — BRIDGET,  COUNTESS  OF  BEDFORD. 
She  was  the  daughter  of  John,  Lord  Hussey  ;  widow  of  Sir 
Richard  Morrison,  Knight,  and  of  Henry,  Earl  of  Rutland,  father 
of  E.  Edward,  ;  and  second  wife  of  Francis  Russel,  second  Earl  of 
Bedford,  who  died  1585. — Dugd.\\.  380.  Banks,  ii.  290.  She 
had  no  issue  by  her  two  last  husbands. — Died  1 2th  Jan.  1600,  and 
lies  buried  at  Watford  in  Herfordshire. — Collins,  (Sir  E.  Bridges) 
i.  272. 

Ib.  '  Rutland! — Edward  Manners,  third  Earl  of  Rutland,  died 
I4th  April,  1587,  leaving  an  only  daughter,  Elizabeth,  who,  at 
the  age  of  thirteen,  became  the  Baroness  Roos,  and  married  Sir 
William  Cecil,  K.G.  (commonly  called  Lord  Burleigh,)  son  and 
heir  apparent  to  Thomas,  first  Earl  of  Exeter. — Dugd.  ii.  298. — 
Sir  E.  Be  Collins,  i.  472. 


Notes.  71 

Ib.  *  Lyncolne.' — Henry  Clinton,  second  Earl  of  Lincoln.  He 
was  one  of  the  Commissioners  on  Queen  Mary's  trial.  *  Of  him 
(Sir  E.  Brydges  remarks)  we  have  but  little  information,  and  that 
little  is  not  to  his  advantage.' — Sir  E.  B?s  Memoirs  of  Peers  of 
England,  Lond.  1802,  p.  43. — He  died  pth  Sept.  1616. — Lodge's 
Illustrations,  iii.  107. 


Page  15. 

*  Ladie  St.  John  of  Basing? — Lucy,  daughter  of  Sir  Thomas 
Cecil,  afterwards  Earl  of  Exeter,  and  wife  of  William,  Lord  St. 
John  of  Basing,  afterwards  fourth  Marquis  of  Winchester. — Died 
1614,  and  was  buried  in  Westminster  Abbey. — Collins,  (Sir  E.  B.) 

»•  375- 

Ib.  *  Mr.  John  Manners? — Probably  John,  brother  and  successor 
of  Edward,  third  Earl  of  Rutland.  He  married  Elizabeth,  daughter 
to  Francis  Charlton  of  Apely,  County  Salop,  Esq. — Died  1st  Feb. 
1588. — Dugd.  ii.  298. — Sir  E.  B.'s  Collins,  i.  473. 


Page  15. 

*  The  Countis  of  Rutland! — Isabel,  daughter  of  Sir  Thomas  Hoi- 
croft  of  Vale  Royal,  Co.  Cheshire,  and  wife  of  Edward,  fourth 
Earl  of  Rutland.— Dugd.— Sir  E.  B?s  Collins,  i.  473. 

Ib.  '  The  Countis  of  Lyncolne! — It  is  likely,  that  this  Lady  was, 
Elizabeth  Fitzgerald,  daughter  of  Gerald,  Earl  of  Kildare,  and 
relict  of  Edward  Clinton,  Earl  of  Lincoln,  father  of  Earl  Henry. 


72  Notes. 

Ib.  *  The  Ladle  Talbot!— Anne,  daughter  of  William  Herbert, 
Earl  of  Pembroke,  wife  of  Francis  Lord  Talbot,  eldest  son,  of 
George,  Earl  of  Shrewsbury :  who  had  the  custody  of  Queen 
Mary,  for  seventeen  years. — Dugd.  i.  334 — (vid.  next  note.) 

Ib.  '  The  Ladie  Marie  Savill." — Mary,  daughter  of  George 
Talbot,  sixth  Earl  of  Shrewsbury ;  wife  of  Sir  Geo.  Saville, 
Knight,  who  bore  the  Great  Standard  of  Scotland,  in  the  funeral 
procession. — Her  father,  died  at  Sheffield  Manor,  i8th  Nov.  1590. 
His  funeral  took  place,  on  the  loth  January  following  ;  and  then 
more  sumptously  performed,  than  '  was  ever  to  any  afore  in  these 
eountrys ;  and  the  assembly  to  see  the  same  was  marvelous,  both 
of  Nobility,  Gentry,  and  country  folks,  and  poor  folks  without 
number.' — Hunters  Hallamshire,  fol.  Lond.  1819.  p.  73. 

Ib.  *  The  Ladle  Mordantt. — Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Sir  Arthur 
Darcie,  Knight,  and  wife  of  Lewis  ;  third  Lord  Mordaunt. — 
Dugd.  ii.  360. — Collins,  iii.  316. 

Ib.  *  The  Ladie  St.  John  of  Bletsoe? — Catherine,  daughter  of  Sir 
William  Dormer  of  Ethorpe,  Co.  Bucks  :  third  wife  of  John, 
second  Lord  St.  John  of  Bletshoe,  who  was  one  of  the  peers  on 
Queen  Mary's  trial,  and  died  1596.  Their  only  daughter  and 
heir,  Anne,  married  William  Lord  Howard  of  Effingham,  eldest 
son  of  Charles  Earl  of  Nottingham. — Dugd.  ii.  300. — Collins,  iv., 
275. 

Ib.  *  The  Ladie  Manners? — Theodosia,  daughter  of  Sir  Thomas 
Newton,  Knight  ;  wife  of  Sir  Thomas  Manners. — Collins,  i.  469 

Ib.  '  The  Ladie  Cecill\ — Dorothy,  second  daughter  of  John  Nevill, 
Lord  Latimer  ;  first  wife,  of  Sir  Thomas  Cecil,  afterwards  second 
Lord  Burleigh,  and  first  Earl  of  Exeter. — Ib.  ii.  60 1. 

Ib.  '  The  Ladie  Montague! — Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Sir  James 
Harrington  of  Exton,  Co.  Rutland,  Knight,  and  wife  of  Sir 
Edward  Montague  of  Hemyngton,  Co.  Northampton,  knight, 
whose  son  Sir  Edward,  was  created  Lord  Montague  of  Boughton, 
19  James  I. — She  died  I9th  May,  1618. — Dugh.  ii.  443.  (Vide 
Note  on  p.  12.) 


Notes.  73 

Ib.  '  The  Ladie  Newell? — Mabel,  one  of  the  daughters  of  Sir 
James  Harrington,  Knight,  and  sister  of  John,  Lord  Harrington, 
wife  of  Sir  Andrew  Noel  of  Dalby,  Co.  Leicester,  Knight  ;  one  of 
the  gentlemen  pensioners  of  Queen  Elizabeth,  whose  son  was 
created  Lord  Noel  of  Ridlington,  14  James  I. — Dugd.  ii.  435. — 
Banks ,  iii.  140. 

Ib,  '  Mistris  Allington? — This  Lady  was  probably  one  of  Queen 
Elizabeth's  maids  of  honour,  and  perhaps  wife  or  daughter  to  Mr. 
Alyngton,  who  is  noticed,  p.  12. 

Ib.  *A  Scotish  Gentlewoman? — In  the  tract,  'A  Remembrance' &c. 
the  name  immediately  following  '  Mrs.  Alington,'  is  '  Mrs  Curie] 
who  is  likely  to  be  the  'Scotish  Gentlewoman*  here  alluded  to. 
It  may  be  remarked  that  in  the  French  account,  besides  the 
eleven  preceding  mourners,  there  occurs  '  Madame  Dudley]  who  was 
probably  Mary,  wife  of  Edward  Sutton,  Lord  Dudley,  and 
daughter  of  William  Lord  Howard  of  Effingham. 

Ib.  '  Scotish  Gentlewomen. — These  eight  ladies  are  named  in  the 
French  account  and  are  designed,  '  Les  Femmes  de  la  Rojne 
d'Eicosse. 


Page  20. 

'  Trots  maisters  d'hostel.' — These  gentlemen  formed  part  of  the 
Queen  of  Scots'  household. 

tb.  '  Les  serviteurs  de  la  Royne  cFEscosse? — In  Queen  Mary's  Will, 
(from  the  Cotton  Library,  Vespas.  c.  xvi.  p.  145.)  which  has  been 
preserved  in  the  History  and  Antiquities  of  Fotheringhay  already 
quoted,  there  occur  the  following  legacies  to  her  domestics. — 
'Je  veulx  que  Guilbert  Courle  soit  paie,  des  premiers  derniers  et 
plus  clairs,  qui  sojesnt  en  mes  cofres,  et  en  default,  sur  mes  meubles, 


74  Notts. 

ou  autres  biens,  de  la  somme  de  quatre  mille  francs,  des  quelz  je 
me  suis  obligee  vers  luy  et  sa  femme,  par  leur  contract  de  manage  : 
Et  oultre,  que  tous  mes  serviteurs  et  officiers  domestiques,  estans 
pres  de  moy  soient  payez  de  leur  gaiges,  pour  1'annee  entiere,  en 
laquelle  je  decederay,  et  Taultre  suyvante  des  premiers  et  plus 
clairs  deniers  de  ma  succession.  Je  donne  et  laysse  a  Jayne 
Kennedy  oultre  laronte  constituee,  en  recompance  de  ces  cervices, 
la  somme  de  mil  frans.  A  Elizabet  Courle  x  autant.  Cent  equs,  a 
Beauregart?  pour  la  remener  en  son  pays.  Six*  sens  francs,  a 
Marie  Pages.  Quatre  sent  franks,  a  Katerine.  Troyst  sens,  a  Bes 
Bray,  &  la  debte  de  son  frere,  de  sent  equs,  dont  il  m'est  redev- 
able.  Deux  sens  frans,  a  Susane?  A  Gilles*  sent  equs.  A 
Bastienf  sinq  sens  francs.  A  Lesquier^  sent  equs.  A  Nicolas ,6  cent 
equs.  A  Robin  Hamilton?  sent  equs.  A  Hanibal*  cent  equs  ;  & 
charge  mon  cousin  de  Guise,  de  Pentretenir  sa  vie  durant,  estant 
son  filleul  &  le  mien  &  un  pauvre  idiot.  A  Garnays*  sinqt  sans 
francs.  A  rapotiquaire™  autant.  A  Jon  Lauder"  troys  sens  franks, 
&  charge  a  mes  executeurs  de  la  provoir  sa  vie  durant  en  service. 
A  Simeon"  &  Heart,  chesqun,  deux  sens  francs  &  pour  pratiques  ; 
&  charge  de  mesme  a  mes  executeurs.  Six  sent  francs  a  Persi 
Cent  francs  a  Tomas.13  Sinquante  francs  a  Hamberlin.  Deus  cent 


"Wife  of  Guilbert  Courle.'  Vide  Note  on  p.  22.— • '  Madamoiselle  Beauregard. 
— 3  '  Susanne  Korkady.' — 4  '  Madamoiselle  Gilles  Maubray.' — 5  '  Bastien  Pagets.' — 
6  'Nicolas  de  la  Mare,  potagier.' — 7  <  Ateux?' — 8  *  Hannibal  Stouard.'  This  person 
seemi  to  have  been  godson  to  the  Queen  and  Duke  of  Guise  j  but  who  his  parents 
were,  does  not  appear.  In  the  list  of  Supernumeraries,  belonging  to  the  train  of 
Mary,  when  she  arrived  at  Sheffield  Castle,  '  Robin  Hamiltoun  '  is  mentioned  ;  and 
his  office  then  was,  '  to  here  fyre  and  water  to  the  Queens  cuysine' — 9  This  person  is 
likely  to  be  *  Jacques  Geruais,  chirurgien.' — I0  '  Pierre  Gorion.' — "  '  Pannetier. 
(pantler) — ia  '  Simon  Jacqui,  valet  de  fourrier,  officier,  qui  serf  sous  un  Marechal  du  logis 
oua  la  Cour,  et  dont  lafonction  esty  de  marquer  le  logement  de  ceux  qni  suivent  la  Cour,  &c 
Diet.  Acad.  Francoise.' — I3  '  Thomas  Fortescu,  maistre  d'hostel  ? ' — 


)'  erased,  and  '  5f*,'  written  over  it. 

'  erased,  and  *  Troys,'  written  over  it. 
+  <  Quatre  sent,'  first  written. 


Notes. 


75 


francs  a  Morton**  et  pratiques.  Didier^  pratiques  a  Balfasar^  restantz 
en  necessite.  Sis  sens  liures,  au  Medecin.17  Sent  frank  a  Rogier, 
et  praticques  essaye.  Troys  ponds,  au  trois  Paleferniers*  et  pra- 
tiques. Sint  francs,  a  Chares.  Cent  francs,  a  Laurent*  Sinq 
ponds,  a  ^/  Boutler,  et  pratiques.  Trois,  a  chasque  des  autres.' 

It  may  be  curious  and  interesting,  to  compare  the  list  of 
domestics  contained  in  Queen  Mary's  Will,  and  in  the  procession, 
with  the  following  : 

The   traine   of  the  Queen  of  Scots,  when  she  first  arrived  at  the 
Castle  of   Sheffield,    (under   the  superintendance  of  George, 
(Sixth)  Earl  of  Shrewsbury,)  in  Dec.  1570.* 
My    Lady   Leinstoun,    dame    of    Archibald  Betoun. 

honor  to  the  quene's  Mate- 


Mrez-  Leinstoun. 

Mrez-  Setoun. 

Maistresse  Brusse. 

Mrez-  Courcelles. 

Mrez-  Kennett. 

My  Lord  Leinstoun. 

Mre-  Betoun,  m'r  howshold. 

Mrc-  •      Leinstoun,         gentilman 

servant. 

Mre-  Castel,  phisition 
Mr.  Raullet,  secretaire. 
Bastien,  page. 
Balthazar  Huylly. 
James  Lander. 
Gilbert  Courll. 
William  Douglas. 
Jaquece  de  Sanlie. 


Thomas  Archebald. 

D Chiffland. 

Guyon  1'Oyselon. 

Andro  Matreson. 

Estien  Hauet,  escuyer. 

Martin  Huet,  m're  cooke. 

Piere  Madard,  potiger. 

Jhan  de  Boyes,  pastilar. 

Mr-  Brusse,  gentilman   to  my 

Lord  Leinstoun. 
Nicoll   Fichar,    servant   to 

Lady  Leinstoun. 
Jhon     Dumfrys,      servant 

Maistresse  Setoun. 
William     Blake,     servant     to 

Maistresse      Courcelles, 

serve    in    absence    of 


my 


to 


to 
Flo- 


rence. 


14 'Martin  Huet,  escuyer  de  cuisine?'  (clerk  of  the  kitchen.] — 'S'Didier  Siflard,  sommelier,' 
(butler.}—16  'Baltassar  Hulli,  valet  de  chambre.'—  *i  '  Monsieur  Bourgoin.'— l8  Pale- 
\frenier,  <  a  groome  of  the  stable  ;  a  horse-keeper.'     Vide  Cotgrave's  Dictionary,  Lond. 
1611. — *9  <Laurens  de  la  Chapelle,  huissier  de  sale.' 
*  Hunter's  History  of  Sheffield,  fol.  Lond.  1819.  p.  66. 


76 


Notes. 


Supernumeraries. 


Christilic         Hog,        Bastiene's 

wyff. 
Ellen     Bog,     the    Mr-    Cooke's 

wyfF. 
Christiane    Grahame,    my    Lady 

Leinstoun's  gentilwoman. 
Jannet  Lindesay,   Mrez-  Setoun's 

gentilwoman. 
Janette  Spetelle. 


Robin     Hamiltoun,     to     here 

fyre      and     water,     to     the 

Quene's  cuysine. 
Robert     Ladel,    the     Queen's 

lacquay. 

Gilbert  Bonnar,  horskeippar. 
Francoys,  to  serve  Mre  Castel, 

the  phesitien. 


*  Tout  le  dit  convoy  J  &c. 
ii.  653.  660. 


Page  29. 
— Reference  may  here  be  made,  to  Jebb, 


Page  33. 

*  Madamoyselle  Barbe  Maubray,' — '  Ehpeth  Curie' — The  following 
is  so  very  interesting,  that  no  apology  seems  necessary  for 
inserting  it  at  length. — It  was  communicated  to  the  Editors  of  the 
Antiquarian  Repertory,  by  John  Bullman,  Esq. 

'Against  a  pillar,  in  the  Church  of  St.  Andrew,  (in  Antwerp)  is 
a  monument,  in  memory  of  the  unhappy  Mary,  Queen  of  Scot- 
land ;  of  which,  the  following  account,  was  given  me,  by  a 
Flemish  gentleman,,  of  consequence  and  learning,  residing  there. 
BARBARA  MOWBRAY,  and  ELIZABETH  CURLE,  both  ladies  of  the 
Bed-chamber,  to  Mary  Queen  of  Scots,  and  faithful  Companions 
of  her  various  fortunes,  after  her  Execution,  were  permitted  to 


Notes.  7  7 

retire  hither,  and  to  take  the  head  of  their  Mistress  with  them  ; 
which  they  interred,  near  a  pillar,  opposite  the  Chapel  of  the 
Holy  Sacrament,*  by  the  entrance,  at  the  grand  door  of  the 
Church  of  St.  Andrew  ;  the  spot  they  had  chosen,  for  their  own 
sepulture. — On  the  pillar,  they  placed  the  portrait  of  the  Queen, 
of  which,  I  herewith  send  you  a  copy  ;  it  is  in  an  oval  frame,  and 
is  about  twenty  inches  high,  well  executed  ;  the  face  extremely 
beautiful,  and  much  differing  from  any  other  I  have  seen  :  her 
hair,  is  represented  as  bright  flaxen.  It  is  said,  this  portrait  was 
painted  in  France,  soon  after  she  became  a  widow.  Under  it, 
upon  a  tablet  of  black  marble,  is  the  following  inscription,  in 
letters  of  gold. 

ANNO  MDLXVIII,  IN  ANG.  REFVG.  RELIGIONIS  CAVSA  QU^ERENS,  COGN. 
ELISAB.  JVSSV  ET  SENAT.  HJERET.  INVIDIA  POSP  XIX  CAPTIUAT.  ANNOS, 
CAPITE  OBTRVNC.  MARTYRIVM  CONSVMAUIT.  ANNO  DOM.  MDLXXXVII, 
JETAT.  ET  REG.  XLV. 

D.  O.   M. 

Nobiliss.  Dvarvm  e  Britannia  Matronarvm  Monvment.  viator 
spectas,  qvae  ad  Regis  Cath.  Tutel.  Orthodoxae  Religionis  cavsa  a 
patria  profvg.  hie  in  spe  resvrectionis  quiescvnt  :  In  primis,  BAR- 
BARA MOUBRAY,  D.  Joannis  Moubray,  Baronis  F.  qvae  Sereniss. 
Mariae  Stvartae  Reginae  Scotiae  a  Cubiculis  ;  nvptijs  data  Gvlielmo 
Cvrle,  qvi  amplivs  xx.  Annis  a  secret.  Reg.  fverat,  vnaqve  sine 
qvrela  Ann.  xxiv.  vixerat,  Liberosqve  Octo  svstvlerat ;  sex  Ccelo 
transcripsit  ;  Filij  dvo  svperstites,  in  stvdijs  liberaliter  edvcati  ; 
Jacobvs  societate  Jesv,  sese  Madriti  aggregavit  in  Hispagnia  ; 
Hypolitvs,  natv  minor,  in  Gallia-Belgica  Societate  Jesv  prov.  sese 
adscribi  Christi  Militem  voluit  et  hie  Mcestis,  cvm  lacrymis  optimae 
Parentis,  P.  C.  pridie  Kal.  Avgvsti  MDCXVII,  ^Etat  LVII.  Vitam 
Caducam  cum  aeterna  commvtavit. 

*  This  is  entirely  fabulous  ,•  but  the  popular  error  may  have  been  occasioned  by 
the  circumstance  of  the  Tablet  to  the  Memory  of  Q.  Mary  having  been  erected 
near  this  place  by  these  Ladies  j  who  were  well  known,  to  have  been  present  at 
the  Execution,  and  to  have  been  devoted  to  the  fortunes  of  their  mistress. 


78  Notes. 

ITEM,  ELIZABETHA  CVRLE,  avita  ex  Nobil.  Curleorvm  stirpe, 
Mariae  qvoqve  Reginas  a  Cvbicvlis  fvit,  et  Octo  annis  vincvlofidei 
Socia.  Hypolitvs  Cvrle,  fratris  ejvs,  F.  hoc  monvmentvm  grati 
animi  pietatisqve  erga  Pos.  Haec  diem  vltimam  vitas  clausit,  A. 
Christi  MDCXX.  ^Etat.  LX.  die  xxix.  Maij. 

D.  o.  M. 

Sub  hoc  lapide,  duarum  Feminarum  vere  piarum  conduntur 
Corpora  :  D.  Barbaras  Moubray  et  D.  Elizabethan  Curie  utraeque 
Scotae.  nobilissimae  Mariae  Reginae  a  Cubiculis,  quarum  Monu- 
mentum  superior!  affigitur  Columnae.  Ilia  vidua  Mortalium  lege 
cessit  xxxi.  Julij  A°-  MDCXVII.  ^Etat.  LVII.  dum  haec,  semper  caslebs, 
xxix.  Maij,  ^Etat.  LX.  A°-  D1-  MDC.XX.  R.  i.  p. 

As  nothing  is  said  respecting  the  interment  of  the  Queen's 
head  in  either  of  these  inscriptions  and  the  circumstance  of  its 
being  brought  hither  not  being  mentioned  by  any  of  our  his- 
torians, it  seems  most  likely  that  the  story  is  groundless. — I  made 
these  objections  to  the  Gentleman  before  mentioned  who  there- 
fore invited  me  to  his  house  ;  where,  from  an  ancient  Flemish 
manuscript,  he  translated  to  me  the  substance  of  what  he  had 
before  related.  On  telling  this  matter  to  Thomas  Astle,  Esq.  he 
was  so  kind  as  to  favour  me  with  the  sight  of  an  original  letter, 
from  Sir  Amias  Paulet  to  Sir  Francis  Walsingham,  dated  Fother- 
inghay  Castle,  July  25,  1586,  containing  an  account  of  the  jewels, 
plate,  &c.  of  Mary  late  Q.  of  Scots.  In  it,  Elizabeth  Curie 
appears  to  have  had  in  her  custody,  besides  many  other  valuable 
Effects,  a  book  of  Gold,  Enamelled,  containing  the  pictures  of 
the  Queen,  her  husband  and  son  ;  possibly,  the  Original  from 
whence  that  on  the  Monument  was  taken.  In  the  same  Letter 
it  is  said  that  the  Body  was  Embalmed  and  Enclosed  in  lead, 
under  the  direction  of  a  Physician  at  Stamford.  Had  the  head 
then  been  wanting,  the  deficiency  would  in  all  probability  have 
been  taken  notice  of. — Vide  Antiquarian  Repertory,  (edited  by  Grose, 
fek.)  iii.  388. 


Notes.  79 

Page  47. 

'  The  Officers  breaking  their  staves,  and  casting  them  into  the  vault  upon 
the  Coffin? —  This  was  the  usual  method  of  concluding  the 
ceremonials  of  State-Funerals.  The  rods  or  staves  were  broken,  in 
token  of  their  office  being  at  an  end.  It  is  certain  *  The  Queen 
of  Scots'  servants,  refused  to  assist  at  a  Protestant  Ceremonial  ; 
and,  when  they  were,  with  difficulty,  prevailed  upon  to  perform 
this  last  office  of  breaking  their  staves,  they  found  it  had  been 
done  before  they  came  in  from  the  Cloister. — Gougtfs  Sepulchral 
Monuments,  p.  clxv. 

In  the  tract  '  Les  magnifiques  obseques,'   &c.   this  circumstance 
is  taken  notice  of;  and  their  ground  of  refusal  to  be  present  at  the 
offering  was,  '  qitih  rfoffroimt  point  a  vn  autel  qrfils  rfapprouuoientpas. 
OLD  SCARLET  THE  SEXTON. 

To  some,  it  may  be  matter  of  curiosity  to  know  that  the 
person  who  made  the  grave  of  Mary  Queen  of  Scots  was  old 
Robert  Scarlet,  the  Sexton  of  Peterborough  Cathedral  ;  a  man 
(as  Gunton  expresses  himself)  'that  was  famous  in  his  generation.' 
— '  There  is  a  Memorial,  entred  on  the  Wall  of  the  Cathedral  of 
Peterborough,  for  one,  who  being  Sexton  thereof,  interred  two 
Queens  therein,  [Katherine  Dowager,  and  Mary  of  Scotland]  more 
than  fifty  years  intervening,  betwixt  their  several  sepultures.  This 
vivacious  Sexton,  also  buried  two  generations,  or  the  people  in  that 
place  twice  over.  Thus,  having  built  many  houses  (so  I  find 
Graves  called,  domus  ^Eternales)  for  others ;  some  (as  it  was  fitting) 
performed  this  last  office  unto  him.  Thus,  though  Sextons  often 
meet  with  bad  savours,  arising  from  Corps,  too  much  (or  rather  too 
little)  corrupted,  yet  is  the  instance  of  his  long  life,  aleadged,  by 
such  who  maintain,  that  the  smelling  to  perfect  mould,  made  of 
men's  consumed  bodies  is  a  preservative  of  health.' — Fuller's 
Worthses,  ii.  174. 

'At  the  West  end  of  the  body  of  the  Church,  under  the  famous 
Sexton,  Robert  Scarlet's  Pourtrayture,  which  is  painted  against 
the  wall  ;  this,  on  an  ordinary  small  stone,  on  the  ground. — 


8o  Notes. 

July  2,   1594.     R.  S.     (i.  e.  Robert  Scarlet)  ^Etatis    98.     On   the 
wall  above,  are  these  twelve  verses'  : — 

You  see  old  Scarlet's  picture  stand  on  hie, 
But  at  your  feete,  there  doth  his  body  lye. 
His  gravestone,  doth  his  age  and  deathtime  show  j 
His  office,  by  these  tokens  you  may  know. 
Second  to  none,  for  strengthe  and  sturdye  limm  ; 
A  scarebabe  mighty  voice,  with  visage  grim. 
He  had  interd  two  Queens,  within  this  place  ; 
And  this  Town's  householders,  in  his  life's  space, 
Twice  over  :  but  at  length,  his  own  turn  came  j 
What  hee  for  others,  for  him  the  same 
Was  done  no  dovbt,  his  soule  doth  live  for  aye, 
In  heaven,  tho  here,  his  body  clad  in  clay. 

Willis's  Survey  of  Cathedrals,    Lond.  1742.  iii.  483. 

There  is  an  Engraving  of  this  curious  Portrait  in  the  History 
and  Antiquities  of  Fotheringay,  *  which  represents  him  as  a  very 
strong  man.  He  has  in  his  right  hand  a  shovel,  in  his  left,  a 
bunch  of  six  large  keys,  in  an  iron  chain  ;  and  in  his  belt  or 
girdle,  a  whip  :  behind  him,  are  a  pick-axe  and  skull. — At  the  top 
of  the  picture,  on  the  right  corner,  is  placed  a  shield,  containing 
what  are  supposed  to  be  his  arms,  two  rapiers,  salter-wise,  between 
four  trefoils,  slipped. 

This  portrait  seems  to  have  escaped  the  observation  of  Granger, 
in  his  Biographical  History  of  England,  and  also  of  his  Continua- 
tor,  Noble. — It  has,  however,  been  re-engraved,  by  Caulfield,  in 
his  '  Portraits,  memoirs,  and  characters  of  remarkable  persons,  from 
the  Reign  of  Edward  III.  to  the  Revolution.'  (Quarto,  Lond. 
1823.  vol  i.  p.  9.) 


*Bibliotheca  Tofog.  Brit.  No  XL.  p.  12. 


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